Dark Web Monitoring

Data breaches happen constantly. Major companies, small services, and even government platforms have been compromised — exposing email addresses, passwords, phone numbers, and financial data. The stolen information ends up on the dark web, where it is bought, sold, and used for:

• Credential stuffing — Attackers try leaked email/password pairs across hundreds of websites, exploiting password reuse.
• Targeted phishing — Knowing which services you use makes phishing emails far more convincing.
• Identity theft — Leaked personal information can be combined to impersonate you.
• Account takeover — If an attacker gains access to your email, they can reset passwords for every connected service.

Without monitoring, you might discover a breach months — or years — after your data was exposed. Dark web monitoring closes that gap by alerting you as soon as your information surfaces in a known breach.

Passwall Dark Web Monitoring uses industry-leading breach intelligence databases that aggregate data from thousands of confirmed data breaches worldwide. Here's the process:

1. Add your email addresses — Register the email addresses you want to protect in the Security section of your vault.
2. Instant initial scan — The moment you add an email, Passwall checks it against the full breach database and returns results within seconds.
3. Continuous background monitoring — Your emails are automatically rechecked on a daily cycle. When new breaches are added to the database, your addresses are compared against them.
4. Breach alert — If your email appears in a new breach, you see a detailed alert in your security dashboard with the breach name, date, affected data types, and recommended actions.

Getting started takes less than a minute:

1. Sign in to Passwall Vault (web or browser extension).
2. Navigate to Security in the sidebar.
3. Scroll down to the Dark Web Monitoring section.
4. Click Add Email and enter the email address you want to monitor.
5. The initial scan runs immediately. Results appear within a few seconds.

You can add multiple email addresses — we recommend monitoring all addresses you regularly use for online accounts, including work emails, personal emails, and any aliases.

When a breach is detected for one of your monitored emails, Passwall shows a detailed alert card with the following information:

Each breach can be individually dismissed once you've taken action (changed your password, enabled 2FA, etc.). Dismissed breaches move to a collapsed section so your dashboard stays clean and actionable.

Finding your email in a breach doesn't mean your accounts have been hacked — it means your credentials were exposed and could be used by attackers. Here's what to do:

1. Check the compromised data types. If passwords were included in the breach, treat any password you used on that service as compromised.
2. Change the password immediately. Use Passwall's built-in password generator to create a strong, unique replacement. Never reuse a password that may have been leaked.
3. Check for password reuse. If you used the same password on other sites, change those too. Passwall's Security Score highlights reused passwords to make this easy.
4. Enable two-factor authentication (2FA). Add TOTP-based 2FA to the affected service. Even if an attacker has your password, 2FA blocks unauthorized access.
5. Monitor for suspicious activity. Check the affected service for unfamiliar logins, account recovery attempts, or unauthorized changes.
6. Dismiss the alert. Once you've resolved the issue, dismiss the breach in Passwall to keep your dashboard focused on unresolved threats.

Dark web monitoring isn't a one-time check — it runs continuously in the background:

• Daily automatic scans — Every monitored email is rechecked against the latest breach data every 24 hours, without any action from you.
• New breach detection — When a new breach is added to the database, your emails are automatically compared. You'll see results the next time you open your security dashboard.
• Manual recheck — You can trigger a recheck at any time by clicking the Recheck button in the Dark Web Monitoring section.
• Last checked timestamp — The dashboard shows when the last scan was performed, so you always know how fresh your data is.

We take your privacy seriously when performing breach checks:

• Server-side processing — Breach checks are performed on the Passwall server, not from your browser. This means your IP address is never exposed to third-party services during the check.
• No password exposure — Dark web monitoring checks email addresses only. Your actual passwords are never sent, shared, or exposed during the monitoring process. Passwords remain encrypted in your vault with zero-knowledge encryption.
• Breach data only — We store breach metadata (breach name, date, data types) — not the actual leaked data itself. We never download or store leaked passwords or personal data from breaches.
• Organization-scoped — Monitored emails and breach results are scoped to your organization. Other organizations or users cannot see your monitoring data.

Dark Web Monitoring is available on the following Passwall plans:

Free plan users can upgrade to Pro to unlock dark web monitoring along with other security features. Visit the pricing page for plan details.