“Your data is on the dark web — period, the end,” said Eva Velasquez, CEO of the nonprofit Identity Theft Resource Center. By the time you get a notification about it, she added, “the vast majority of ...

Google will soon conclude a customer facing tool that tracks those massive databases which malicious actors trade on the dark web.

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 ...

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.

It has been over a year and a half since the Hernando County government website and many services went offline over the 2024 ...

Allegations of a Kraken breach surfaced online on January 2, 2026, as investigators reviewed a dark web advertisement. The ...

According to Google, the Dark Web Report will be discontinued as it did not give users clear actions, and the company will focus on other security tools to protect personal information ...

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 has just sent out an email to active users of its “Dark Web Report” tool to inform them that, as of February 16, 2026, the tool will be shut down. The feature was made available to all Google ...

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 ...

From leaked credentials to ransomware plans, the dark web is full of early warning signs — if you know where and how to look. Here’s how security leaders can monitor these hidden spaces and act before ...

Gathering threat intelligence, finding the perpetrators of cyber attacks and bringing down whole ransomware gangs are some of the ways the dark web is used by defenders. The term “dark web” may paint ...