Article updated on March 31, 2025 by Byothe
Online security is probably one of the topics of this beginning of the millennium and many of us lack weapons in the face of these issues that can allow malicious people to expose us. This is why Dashlane, a French publisher of password management software, has set up a website to raise awareness of online security by analyzing the contents of your email inbox.
So, Dashlane Inbox Scan is a tool that allows you to scan your mailbox to find sensitive information such as your passwords and postal address.
To do this, go to Dashlane Inbox Scan and press "Start Scan". You will then choose the type of email (Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo! or AOL), connect to your mailbox, and the service will analyze all your emails looking for identification information such as emails, passwords, etc.
Once the scan is complete, a report in the form of a chronological map will be displayed showing you the number of accounts found in your mailbox. For the blue bubbles, an account has been detected but without login information, on the other hand, for the red bubbles a password has been found!
This makes you aware of the amount of information that someone hacking your mailbox could recover!
The next step in the process tells you which password you use the most! This is a reminder that it is essential to use different passwords because if your password is hacked on a dubious site it is then not difficult to use it to log in to all your other accounts!
Dashlane then offers a summary screen with the number of accounts found, the number of passwords used on sites affected by security breaches, the number of passwords reused on more than 3 sites and finally your score.
Last but not least, you can download a very comprehensive PDF report in which you will be able to find in detail all the information found in your mailbox, namely:
- matters
- login
- mot de passe
- password strength
You then have a very powerful tool to clean up if necessary and change passwords that carry risks.
Also note that if you can't find your password, this report can certainly help you (provided that it appears somewhere in one of your emails)!
