Create a monitoring profile & get your dark web report results

You can set up a profile to monitor the dark web so you can learn if your info is found in breaches.

You can check for data on the dark web that might be associated with your email address or other info you add to your monitoring profile. Breach results may contain information including:

  • Your name
  • Address
  • Phone number
  • Email
  • Social Security Number (SSN)
  • Username
  • Password

Tip: Only accounts based in the US can add a Social Security Number to their monitoring profile.

Any information found in the breach results will be displayed in redacted form to maintain data privacy.

With the results, you can review your information and make informed decisions about how to protect yourself.

Eligibility

To be eligible for dark web reports, you must have a consumer Google Account. Dark web report is not available for Google Workspace accounts and supervised accounts.

Countries or regions where dark web report is available

Important: The types of personal information scanned by dark web report may vary by country or region.

Dark web report is currently available in:

  • Albania
  • Algeria
  • Argentina
  • Austria
  • Australia
  • Bangladesh
  • Belgium
  • Bolivia
  • Brazil
  • Canada
  • Chile
  • Colombia
  • Denmark
  • Ecuador
  • Finland
  • France
  • Germany
  • Greece
  • Iceland
  • India
  • Indonesia
  • Ireland
  • Israel
  • Italy
  • Japan
  • Mexico
  • Morocco
  • Netherlands
  • Nicaragua
  • Norway
  • Pakistan
  • Philippines
  • Senegal
  • Slovenia
  • South Korea
  • Spain
  • Sri Lanka
  • Sweden
  • Switzerland
  • Taiwan
  • Türkiye
  • Ukraine
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
  • Venezuela
  • Vietnam

Set up your monitoring profile

You can choose to monitor just your Google Account email address or add other information to your monitoring profile.
  1. On your iPhone or iPad, open the Google App .
  2. At the top right, tap your profile picture or initial and then Manage your Google Account and then Security tab.
  3. Scroll down and tap Dark web report.
  4. Under Dark web report, tap Start monitoring.
  5. To include additional Google Account personal information in your monitoring profile:
    1. Select the desired checkboxes.
    2. Tap Allow.
  6. Confirm your selections and add any additional data you want to monitor.
  7. Tap Done.
Get your results & take action
You can get all of your dark web report breach results at once, or you can find results for specific types of information matched from your monitoring profile.
Dark web results provide variable suggested actions to protect your personal info. Understand your results & take action.

Get your results

  1. On your iPhone or iPad,  open the Google App .
  2.  At the top right, tap your profile picture or initial and then Manage your Google Account and then Security tab.
  3. Scroll down and tap Dark web report and then View all results.
  4. To find additional details for a result, tap the result.
  5. To filter your results by personal information type, at the top right, tap the​ Down arrow Down arrow.
  6. Choose from the data types found, which might include the following:
    • SSN
    • Name
    • Date of birth
    • Address
    • Up to 10 email addresses
    • Up to 3 phone numbers
    • Credit card number
    • Password
    • Username
    • Gender

Take action:

  1. On your iPhone or iPad,  open the Google App .
  2. At the top right, tap your profile picture or initial and then Manage your Google Account and then Security tab.
  3. Scroll down and tap Dark web report and then View all results.
  4. Tap a result.
  5. To get recommended actions, scroll down to “Suggested next steps.”
Edit or delete your monitoring profile
Important: You can’t edit or delete the email associated with your Google Account unless you delete your monitoring profile to disable dark web report. When you delete your monitoring profile, your information will no longer be monitored on the dark web.
  1.  On your iPhone or iPad, open the Google App .
  2. At the top right, tap your profile picture or initial and then Manage your Google Account and then Security tab.
  3. Scroll down and tap Dark web report and then View all results.
  4. Under “Data breaches with your info,” tap Edit monitoring profile.

Update your phone number

Important: Google will send a verification code to any number you add to make sure it’s yours.
  1.  On your iPhone or iPad, open the Google App .
  2. At the top right, tap your profile picture or initial and then Manage your Google Account and then Security tab.
  3. Scroll down and tap Dark web report and then View all results.
  4. Under “Data breaches with your info,” tap Edit monitoring profile.
  5. Scroll to “Phone (# of 3 added).”
  6. To the right of the phone number, tap Delete Delete .
  7. To add a new number, tap Add number.
Tip: Numbers can’t be edited.

Delete your monitoring profile

  1.  On your iPhone or iPad, open the Google App .
  2. At the top right, tap your profile picture or initial and then Manage your Google Account and then Security tab.
  3. Scroll down and tap Dark web report and then View all results.
  4. Under “Data breaches with your info,” tap Edit monitoring profile.
  5. At the bottom, tap Delete monitoring profile.
  6. On the “Delete monitoring profile?” confirmation screen, tap Delete Delete .

How we use your monitoring profile info

When you set up your monitoring profile, your profile info is used to check whether a match was found on the dark web. If matching info is found, we'll email or notify you. You can find guidance on how to protect your personal information on the Security page of your Google Account.

Learn how Google protects your privacy and keeps you in control.

Related resources

How dark web report works

 

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