Important Tool To Tell if Your Personal Data Has Been Hacked

A fellow Australian Genius, Daniel Grzelak has come up with this new website -Should I Change My Password  that tells you whether your email address was one of the 1,000,000+ stolen in recent hacker attacks. You simply visit the site and enter your email address. The site checks your email against the databases of stolen information released by the hackers themselves either for bragging rights or to make a statemen and alerts you if you are on the list and how many times your data has been stolen. Grzelak says that he will keep the site up to date as new lists of stolen emails are released by hackers.

If your email comes up clean, it doesn't necessarily mean you're in the clear, just that you weren't a victim of the recent high profile thefts where information was released. Either way, these crimes are a wake-up call that we all need to stay on our toes when it comes to protecting our privacy.