Sharma ji knocked on my door after dinner last Tuesday. He had one specific question. He wanted to know whether his phone number was in the leaked AU Small Finance Bank data or not.
I sat him down and showed him two ways to check.
The first one takes about ninety seconds. Open your laptop or phone browser and go to haveibeenpwned.com. Type in your email address. That website tracks hundreds of major data breaches from around the world and tells you immediately if your email has appeared in any of them. It is free and it has been running for years.
Sharma ji typed in his Gmail address. It showed three old breaches from years ago a food delivery app, a hotel booking site, and an e-commerce platform. His email had been out there for a while.
He looked worried. I told him: being in an old breach does not mean you are actively targeted right now. But it does mean you should use different passwords for different apps.
The second way is to check your phone number. Some breach checking tools let you enter your mobile number and tell you if it appeared in Indian-specific leaks. The CYBX app does this automatically, running in the background, checking your number and email against newly discovered dark web databases every single day.
That is the real difference between a one-time check and actual protection. Checking once tells you where things stood yesterday. CYBX tells you the moment something changes.
Install CYBX. Built by 63SATS, it monitors dark web markets continuously and sends you an instant alert the moment your contact details surface anywhere they should not be.