How dark web monitoring works

Zoë Austin

Head of Commercial Performance at ClearScore UK

04 June 2020

1 min read

If a company gets hacked, your personal information could be leaked on the dark web without you knowing. If this happens, fraudsters can use this information to hack into your accounts, take out credit or buy goods in your name.

Dark web monitoring is a great way of protecting yourself against fraudsters because you get to see whether your data is out there for criminals to use.

ClearScore Protect is a free dark web monitoring service that scans the dark web for you every three months. We do this safely and securely, by partnering with cyber researchers who search the dark web for stolen data and save it into a secure database. We then search this secure database for our users' data, so that we can alert them.

Next step: find out more about Protect

Meet the author

Head of Commercial Performance at ClearScore UK

Zoë Austin

Zoë is Head of Commercial Performance at ClearScore UK, with over 14 years in financial services. She works with the UK's lenders to connect people with the right credit options, and writes to help you understand your score and the products that fit.

How dark web monitoring works

Zoë Austin

Head of Commercial Performance at ClearScore UK

04 June 2020

1 min read

If a company gets hacked, your personal information could be leaked on the dark web without you knowing. If this happens, fraudsters can use this information to hack into your accounts, take out credit or buy goods in your name.

Dark web monitoring is a great way of protecting yourself against fraudsters because you get to see whether your data is out there for criminals to use.

ClearScore Protect is a free dark web monitoring service that scans the dark web for you every three months. We do this safely and securely, by partnering with cyber researchers who search the dark web for stolen data and save it into a secure database. We then search this secure database for our users' data, so that we can alert them.

Next step: find out more about Protect

Meet the author

Head of Commercial Performance at ClearScore UK

Zoë Austin

Zoë is Head of Commercial Performance at ClearScore UK, with over 14 years in financial services. She works with the UK's lenders to connect people with the right credit options, and writes to help you understand your score and the products that fit.