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Protect yourself and investigate safely

Plain, sourced answers: data breaches, infostealer logs, Discord IDs, domain lookups and recovering a hacked account.

How to check if your email was in a data breach
Find out which data breaches included your email address, what was exposed, and the five things to do next to protect your accounts.
What are infostealer logs, and what to do if you appear in one
Infostealer malware copies saved passwords and session cookies from a device. Learn how the logs are used and the order in which to clean up.
What a Discord ID reveals (and what it does not)
A Discord ID is a snowflake that encodes its creation time. See how to decode it, what else is public, and what a lookup can never show.
How to look up a domain: RDAP, DNS and certificate transparency
Find out when a domain was registered, by which registrar, where it points and which subdomains it has, using RDAP, DNS and certificate logs.
Account hacked? A step-by-step recovery checklist
Recover a hacked account and stop it happening again: secure your email first, end every session, fix recovery settings and check for leaks.