Introducing uBreach

Identify exposed employee accounts with dark-web monitoring.

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Written by Jordan Daly
Updated over a week ago

In this article, you'll learn:


What is uBreach?

uBreach is a dark-web exposure scanning tool that enables you to quickly identify exposed employee email accounts and identities that have been publicly disclosed online via third-party data breaches.

With billions of credentials present in data dumps, paste sites and hacking forums, employees that sign up to third-party services with their work email address could be leaving your organisation at huge risk of social engineering, business email compromise (BEC) and other damaging attacks.


What can I do with uBreach?

uBreach allows you to...

  • Identify exposed employee accounts. uBreach identifies accounts that are exposed on paste sites, data dumps and hacking forums

  • Locate what employee data is exposed. Common data includes email addresses, passwords, usernames etc.

  • Help prevent data loss. Locating these at-risk accounts enables you to safeguard users from social engineering and BEC attacks

  • Obtain actionable steps. usecure's security awareness software, uLearn, enables follow-up user training on security best practice


What's the difference between uBreach Starter and uBreach Pro?

uBreach Starter gives you a great way to begin monitoring dark web breaches. uBreach Pro provides a number of features to help you dig into existing breaches, get notified of new breaches when they are discovered, and keep track of which breaches you've taken steps to address.


How does uBreach work?

Here's what happens behind the scenes of uBreach.

  • Step One: We conduct a scan of the deep web, including searches through data dumps, paste sites and hacking forums to find new breaches and exposed credentials.

  • Step Two: We identify your users that have been involved in breaches, and record which personal information they have had exposed.

  • Step Three: Your users' results are collated into an easy-to-digest report, accessible from your usecure dashboard.

  • Step Four: You can take action to mitigate further breaches of your organisation by notifying breached users and taking action.


What are the key features of uBreach?

The main features of uBreach include...

  • Quick web search enables you to rapidly identify exposed accounts

  • Gathers high-level data (i.e., number of exposed accounts & source of breach) neatly into your usecure dashboard

  • View each user's exposed data breakdown from their usecure profile


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