Google is retiring its free darkish net monitoring device subsequent yr

Google will cease sending out darkish net reviews beginning early subsequent yr, because it shuts down the free tool that may inform you in case your private info has appeared on the seedy underbelly of the web. The device was once solely out there to Google One subscribers till the corporate opened it up to everyone in mid-2024. Should you change it on, you’ll obtain a notification each time your title, e mail tackle and cellphone quantity leak on the web, usually because of knowledge breaches.

In Google’s e mail announcement, nevertheless, it stated it was discontinuing darkish net reviews as a result of “suggestions confirmed that it didn’t present useful subsequent steps.” A report simply lets you already know that your info has appeared on the darkish net. You may as well see an inventory of all of the hits you get in your Google account, together with what knowledge breach leaked that individual element. Nonetheless, it doesn’t provide you with steerage on what to do afterwards.

The corporate defined that it’s going to give attention to instruments that can provide you clear, actionable step to take as an alternative. Google will cease monitoring for brand new darkish net outcomes on January 15, 2026 and can take away entry to the report out of your account on February 16. You may as well remove your monitoring profile proper now by going to the “outcomes along with your information” part on the device’s official web page.