A trove of 16 billion stolen and leaked login credentials recently made headlines. It's probably a good time to use Google's dark web report.

Google is shutting down the free tool that can tell you if your personal information has appeared on the dark web.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Barry Collins is a tech journalist writing about PCs, Macs and games. Google is making its Dark Web Report available to the ...

The company is indicating the free 'dark web report' system wasn't that helpful. But Google is also hinting it's working on better security tools for users.

Google's support page has confirmed the closure, of which some users were initially notified via email. Scans for new dark web data breaches will stop on Jan. 15, 2026, and by Feb.16, 2026, the report ...

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"Dark Web Report" is about to be free for everyone, and, yes, you should care. The title may make this feature sound like some unappealing podcast, but it's actually a handy Google security tool that ...

Google is retiring its free Dark Web monitoring tool for Gmail users, citing a lack of helpful next steps and meaningful alerts. The tool, which scann ...

Google is preparing to shut down its free dark web monitoring tool, ending a short-lived experiment that made breach alerts widely accessible beyond paid subscribers. The company has confirmed that ...

These days, it's a given that at least some of your personal information is available on the Dark Web. The leaks just keep coming. This month, AT&T announced that call and text records of ...

The tech giant used to charge for access to its dark web report service. Now it's free with a Google account. Ian Sherr Contributor and Former Editor at Large / News Ian Sherr (he/him/his) grew up in ...