See which sites have a public profile under your username, what each one shows, and how a reused handle links your accounts together.
The username is sent to our server, which asks each site's public API whether that profile exists. Nothing is stored, and results are cached for an hour only to respect each site's limits.
A username you have used for years is a thread that ties your accounts together. Someone who finds your handle on one site can search it everywhere else and assemble your hobbies, your city, your employer, old posts and sometimes an email address, without any data breach at all.
This check asks nine sites with reliable public lookups whether a profile exists under your handle, and shows what each kind of profile exposes. Large social networks block automated checks, so instead of guessing, the tool gives you a direct link to each one to look for yourself. Use it on your own handles, then tidy or close what you no longer want public.
Doxxing rarely needs hacking. People who want to find someone start with a handle from a game, a forum or a comment, search it across sites, and piece together a real name and location from bios, linked accounts and old posts. A unique handle reused for ten years makes that easy.
Developer sites deserve a special look. Public code commits can carry the email address configured on the computer that made them, and old projects can contain configuration files or keys. If this check finds your GitHub, GitLab or Docker Hub profile, review what is public there.
The fix is not to panic but to separate. Keep one handle for public, professional use if you want it findable, use different handles for gaming, dating and anonymous forums, close accounts you no longer use, and remove links between profiles you would rather keep apart.
It makes your accounts easy to link. Anyone who sees the handle in one place can search for it everywhere else and put together your interests, location and history. Use separate handles for things you want kept apart, such as gaming, dating and anonymous forums.
Those sites block automated profile lookups or return the same page whether a profile exists or not. Rather than guess and risk telling you a profile does not exist when it does, the tool gives you a direct link to check each one yourself.
No. The username is sent to our server only to ask each site's public API, and the results are held in memory for an hour so repeated checks do not hit the sites' limits. Nothing is written to our database.
Nothing, unless it is impersonating you. Usernames are not unique across sites, so someone else may simply use the same handle. If a profile is pretending to be you, report it to that site using its impersonation form.
Sign in and look for the delete or close account option, usually under settings, privacy or account. If you cannot get in, use the site's support form or send a deletion request. Our data deletion request generator writes the letter with the legal deadline.
Sometimes. Developer sites can show an email in public code history, some profiles list a contact address, and an old breach may pair the username with an email. Check your email in the breach checker and set public emails to private where a site allows it.