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Dark web

Billions of credentials circulate in breach dumps, paste sites, and dark web markets. Knowing whether your users - or your own teams - appear in them is now table stakes for security. This collection explains how breach data is collected and indexed, how to search it safely by email or domain, and how to turn exposure data into action.

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How breach data ends up on the dark web (and how to search it)

The lifecycle of a data breach, from compromise to circulation, and how indexed search works.

Domain-wide exposure monitoring

Searching every address on your domain at once and alerting on new leaks.

Reading a breach record: fields and confidence

Sources, dates, and exposed data classes - interpreting what a hit actually means.

Building breach alerts into onboarding and auth

Practical patterns for password-reuse warnings and compromised-credential checks.

Topics

  • Breach dumps, combolists, and stealer logs
  • Ethics and legality of breach search

  • Continuous exposure monitoring with Monitors
  • Responding to a new employee credential leak

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