Intelligence resources

Breach & Threat Intelligence


Where to find out whether you or your organisation has been caught up in a breach, and the platforms professional investigators use to see what is exposed on the internet. Each card says what the service is best for and what you get for free.

Live tracker What's getting pwned right now, at pwn.watch A free, live feed of current software vulnerabilities worldwide: what is affected, how serious each is, and which version fixes it. A quick way to see whether something you use is at risk right now.

Check yourself

Safe for anyone. These services only show you your own results, or send them to the inbox being checked.

Have I Been Pwned

Breach notification
Start here

The reference database of public data breaches, run by security researcher Troy Hunt. Many other checkers use its data.

Best for
  • Seeing which breaches an email address appears in
  • Free alerts when it shows up in a new breach
  • Checking whether a password has leaked, without sending the password
Free: email search, notifications, Pwned Passwords, and monitoring for a domain with up to 10 breached addresses.

Mozilla Monitor

Breach alerts
Free

Mozilla's breach alert service, with plain-language advice on what to do after each breach.

Best for
  • Watching several personal email addresses in one place
  • Step-by-step guidance after a breach
Free: real-time breach alerts for up to 20 email addresses.

SpyCloud Exposure Check

Breaches, malware and phishing
Free

SpyCloud recaptures data from criminal sources, including malware-infected computers and successful phishing, not just old breaches.

Best for
  • Finding out whether your details were stolen by malware
  • A broader picture than breach lists alone
Free: a personal exposure report. Sensitive details stay hidden until you verify you own the email.

F-Secure Identity Theft Checker

Breach check
Free

A one-off breach check from the Finnish security company F-Secure.

Best for
  • A private check: the report goes to the inbox you enter, not the screen
  • Recommended actions for each breach
Free: breach report by email. F-Secure says it does not store the address.

Password manager checks

Leaked password warnings
Free

Your password manager can check every saved login against known breaches automatically.

Best for
  • Finding which of your saved passwords have leaked
  • Ongoing warnings without signing up for anything new
Free: Bitwarden's Data Breach report (all plans), Google Password Checkup, Apple Passwords and Microsoft Edge Password Monitor.

Investigator tools

Professional platforms for threat intelligence, attack-surface mapping and investigations. Most can surface information about any person, company or system, so use them only for lawful, authorised work.

Intelligence X

Leak and dark-web search engine
Professional

A search engine over leaked data, dark-web sites, paste sites and historical archives, built for investigators.

Best for
  • Finding where an email, domain or IP appears in leaks
  • Historical copies of pages and documents that have since disappeared
Free tier: yes, with a free account. Fewer results (200 per category versus 1,000 on paid plans), shorter searches and limited data sources.

Hudson Rock

Infostealer intelligence
Professional

Tracks credentials and data stolen by infostealer malware, today one of the main ways attackers get into companies.

Best for
  • Checking whether employees' or customers' computers tied to your domain have been infected
  • Investigating how an account was taken over
Free: lookup tools for domains, emails, usernames and Android apps, including the “Are You Compromised” domain check, and a free one-time company report on request.

Censys

Internet scanning and attack surface
Professional

Continuously scans the internet and records which hosts, services and certificates are exposed.

Best for
  • Mapping an organisation's internet-facing systems
  • Certificate and host history during investigations
Free tier: 100 credits a month. A search costs 5 credits (about 20 a month) and a single host or certificate lookup costs 1.

Shodan

Search engine for connected devices
Professional

The best-known search engine for internet-connected devices: servers, webcams, industrial systems, routers and more.

Best for
  • Finding exposed services and devices by product, port or organisation
  • Monitoring your own IP ranges for new exposures
Free tier: a free account with basic search and a free API plan, with limited results and filters.

urlscan.io

Website scanner
Professional

Visits a website in a sandbox and records everything it loads, contacts and shows, with a screenshot.

Best for
  • Safely inspecting a suspicious link without opening it yourself
  • Finding other pages that share infrastructure with a malicious site
Free: 5,000 public scans, 50 private scans and 1,000 searches a day with an account.

VirusTotal

File, URL and domain reputation
Professional

Google-owned service that checks files, links, domains and IP addresses against dozens of security engines.

Best for
  • Checking a suspicious file or link before opening it
  • Looking up a file by its hash (see our File Hash Checker)
Free tier: web lookups and a rate-limited public API for non-commercial use.

GreyNoise

Internet background noise
Professional

Tells you whether an IP address is mass-scanning the whole internet, or is a known harmless service.

Best for
  • Deciding whether an IP in your logs is targeting you or scanning everyone
  • Cutting down false alarms
Free tier: a free community account for IP lookups, with rate limits.

crt.sh

Certificate transparency search
Professional

Searches the public logs of every trusted TLS certificate ever issued.

Best for
  • Finding an organisation's subdomains
  • Spotting look-alike domains that got certificates for phishing
Free: completely free, no account needed.

About this list

Free tiers and prices were checked in October 2026 and change often; each provider's own website is the authority. Rondel Group is not affiliated with these services and does not control or endorse their content or practices. Investigator tools can reveal information about other people and organisations: use them only where you have a lawful basis and, for security testing, written authorisation from the owner. This page is general information, not legal or professional advice.