The Best Dark Web Monitoring Services and Bundles
Data breaches are more common than ever. Here are the best ways I’ve found to protect yourself online.
Data breaches have become a fact of our digital world. Verizon’s 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report recorded over 12,000 breaches in that year alone. That’s nearly three dozen a day.
And it gets worse. Troy Hunt, founder of Have I Been Pwned, says that data breaches are not being reported as openly as they once were. “Now more than ever, there is an abundant lack of disclosure from breached organizations.”
There is, however, one last line of defense: a dark web monitoring service. Here’s what they are, how they work, and which ones we prefer. While you’re at it, consider looking into identity theft services, which can provide insurance for lost money online.
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If you’re online, you’re generating a constant stream of information about yourself — sometimes voluntarily, sometimes unwittingly — that is assembled and used to craft your online experience. And generate wealth for data brokers. Meanwhile, designers and managers of the digital infrastructure on which the world depends are engaged in a never-ending effort to thwart attempts, by both criminal enterprises and state actors, to exploit vulnerabilities in those systems.
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