r/theprivacymachine 1h ago

Question Google dark web report actually accurate?

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I was messing around in my google account settings earlier today trying to clear out old passwords and i randomly saw this google dark web report thing. Never paid attention to it before, but I clicked scan just to see what is this

Aaaaaand it flagged like 4 different breaches from old random sites I havent used since like 2018. it said my email and an old password were found on the dark web. it immediately made me worried not gonna lie, these are the sites:

Canva password and email
Wattpad old username and password
Random online shoe store from 2018
Gaming forum i dont even remember making an account for

Soo has anyone else actually used the google dark web report to clean up their stuff? is it pretty reliable with these alerts or is google just trying to scare us?


r/theprivacymachine 42m ago

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