Check your digital footprint
With NordVPN, you can see your full digital footprint at a glance — and learn the best way to reduce it.
How to check your digital footprint
Open Dark Web Monitor and follow these steps to calculate your digital footprint risk score and see how you may appear online.
Choose your email address
Select an email address you’ve added to Dark Web Monitor.
Get your digital footprint report
Find out what the internet knows about you.
Reduce your digital footprint
Follow tailor-made action steps to shrink your digital footprint.
What does the digital footprint report include?
Your digital footprint report may include:
Exposure overview
A summary of your digital footprint exposure based on detected online accounts, activities, and data leaks.
Main risks
The most urgent threats we've spotted in your accounts, activities, and data leaks.
Exposure score and risk level
An overall assessment of how exposed your digital footprint is. The higher the score, the greater the risk.
List of online profiles
All detected accounts — active and forgotten — including last activity dates and profile pictures.
Account-specific risks
Tailored recommendations to reduce exposure for different accounts.
Activity feed
Your most recent online activity.
How NordVPN generates your digital footprint
NordVPN’s digital footprint checker uses open source intelligence (OSINT) to locate personal details linked to your email address across the web. It may reveal what scammers, data brokers, and search engines can learn about you.
Instead of having to search manually, you get a clean report that maps out your active and forgotten accounts, shows data leaks, and calculates your online exposure score.
Once your report is ready, the tool gives you step-by-step instructions on how to shrink your digital footprint. And don't worry — NordVPN never stores, shares, or sells your personal information.
Why monitor your digital footprint?
Your digital footprint is more than just scattered bits of data. It's identifiable information that can be traced back to you and used to scam you or steal your identity. And it grows every day, with every search, post, account, and click, whether you realize it or not.
You become an easier target for scammers
The more of your information is out there, the easier you are to exploit. Scammers might use your exposed details for phishing attacks, account takeovers, or identity theft. An exposure report helps you catch and remove what criminals could use against you.
Your data is currency
Data brokers scrape your details from all over the web, build a profile on you, and sell it to advertisers. Digital footprint monitoring shows what information these companies trade, so you can manage it.
Old accounts don't disappear
Forgotten accounts can leave personal information exposed long after you stop using them. An exposure report helps you find these old accounts so you can delete them or remove unnecessary personal data.
Reduce your digital footprint —
take back what’s yours
The less personal information you expose online, the harder it is for scammers to target you or steal your identity.
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