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YOUR PROTECTION PLAN

Turn your exposure into steps

Ordered by what protects you most right now. Each step says who does what.

Your steps

These steps are grouped by what protects you most right now. Start with the top priority; the rest still matter, with less urgency.

TOP PRIORITY

Start here. This protects you most right now.

Use a unique password for every service

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Recommended because your email appears in 3 breach records and connects to a public profile.

If one service is breached, a unique password keeps the rest safe.

How to make unique passwords easy
  • Use a password manager so every account has its own strong password.
  • That way one breached service cannot unlock the rest. Flggd never handles the password itself.
What happens next
Each account you move to its own password stops depending on the others.
How you will know it worked
You will know it worked when your password manager shows no reused passwords. Flggd never sees your passwords, so you mark this done yourself.

Why this is ranked here:

  • Do this first. It reduces how useful your exposure is to someone targeting you.
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NEXT

Do these once the top step is done.

Change any password you may have reused

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Recommended because your email appears in 3 breach records and connects to a public profile.

Focus first on passwords shared with a service in these records.

Open security settings to change your password
  • Change the password on the accounts where you reused it, starting with your most important accounts.
  • Flggd never asks for, sees, or stores any password.
What happens next
Start with your email account, then banking and shopping accounts.
How you will know it worked
Done when every account that shared a password with these breached services has a new, unique one. Flggd never sees passwords, so you mark this done yourself.

Why this is ranked here:

  • It reduces how useful your exposure is to someone targeting you.
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Turn on MFA or passkeys

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Recommended because your email appears in 3 breach records and connects to a public profile.

A second step or a passkey stops most account takeovers even if a password leaks.

Turn on two-step verification
  • Open the security settings of your important accounts.
  • Turn on two-step verification or a passkey. You sign in and activate it.
What happens next
The account will ask for the second step the next time someone signs in on a new device.
How you will know it worked
You will know it worked when the account's security page shows two-step verification or a passkey turned on.

Why this is ranked here:

  • It reduces how useful your exposure is to someone targeting you.
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LATER

Worth doing, with less urgency.

Review your recovery email and phone

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Recommended because your email appears in 3 breach records and connects to a public profile.

Account recovery is a common way in. Make sure yours are current and protected.

Review your recovery options
  • Open your account security settings and check your recovery email and phone.
  • Make sure they are current and protected.
What happens next
Remove any old phone number or email you no longer use.
How you will know it worked
Done when each important account lists only a recovery email and phone you control.

Why this is ranked here:

  • It reduces how useful your exposure is to someone targeting you.
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Remove public profile information you do not need

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Recommended because your email appears in 3 breach records and connects to a public profile.

Fewer public details means fewer pieces a message can reference.

  • This opens the public profile Flggd observed, so you can see what is visible. Opening it does not change or remove anything.
What happens next
Search engines can take a while to drop old copies of a page.
How you will know it worked
Open the public profile again: the details you removed should no longer show.

Why this is ranked here:

  • It reduces how useful your exposure is to someone targeting you.
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This is the public profile URL Flggd actually observed for you.

Use an alias email for lower-trust services

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Recommended because your email appears in 3 breach records and connects to a public profile.

An alias keeps your main address out of low-trust sign-ups.

Use a separate email address for lower-trust services
  • A separate address keeps your main email out of lower-trust sign-ups, so a future breach of that service does not expose this address.
  • Create a separate free email address and use it only for shops, newsletters and trials. If your provider offers an alias feature, that works too.
  • Keep this address for the accounts that matter, such as banking, work and account recovery.
What happens next
Use the alias for new shopping, newsletter and trial sign-ups.
How you will know it worked
You will know it is working when new sign-up emails arrive at the alias instead of your main address.

Why this is ranked here:

  • It reduces how useful your exposure is to someone targeting you.
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Check messages that mention Acme, Evite or LinkedIn with the service directly

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Recommended because your email appears in 3 breach records and connects to a public profile.

Your email is in breach records for Acme, Evite or LinkedIn. A scammer can use that to send a message that sounds real. Go to the service yourself, by typing its address or opening its app, instead of tapping a link or calling a number in the message.

What happens next
The next time a message mentions one of these services, check it with the service directly.
How you will know it worked
This is a habit rather than a setting, so there is nothing to verify. Flggd keeps the list of services.

Why this is ranked here:

  • It reduces how useful your exposure is to someone targeting you.
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Find and remove people-search listings about you

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Recommended because your email appears in 3 breach records and connects to a public profile.

People-search sites publish your name, town and phone number. Removing those listings takes away the details a scammer uses to sound like they know you.

Check for data-broker listings
  • Flggd can guide you through checking the main people-search sites.
  • If you find yourself, Flggd prepares the removal. Nothing is claimed removed until a listing is confirmed and re-checked.
What happens next
Flggd checks the people-search sites once and shows what it found.
How you will know it worked
You will know it worked when a later check no longer sees the listing. Flggd will not call it removed on that alone, because sites can keep or relist records.

Why this is ranked here:

  • It reduces how useful your exposure is to someone targeting you.
  • Eligible brokers vary by country.
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Affected services

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These are the services where your exact email address was found in a breach record. Securing the account is the most direct step where there is one to secure.

Acme

Secure your Acme account
  • Sign in to Acme and open its security or password settings.
  • Change the password if you reused it, and turn on two-step verification if it is offered.

Evite

Secure your Evite account
  • Sign in to Evite and open its security or password settings.
  • Change the password if you reused it, and turn on two-step verification if it is offered.

LinkedIn

Secure your LinkedIn account
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Remove your Spokeo listing

We found a listing with your details at Spokeo. You choose how this removal is done.

How would you like to handle this? You decide how much Flggd does for you.

Let Flggd handle this

Not offered today

Flggd does not remove listings on your behalf today. You can remove this yourself now, and Flggd keeps it on your plan and re-checks it where the source allows.

Why this stops here: Flggd does not remove this for you today. You can remove it yourself now, and Flggd will keep it on your plan and re-check it where the source allows.

  • Choose the self-service option below to remove this now.
  • Flggd will keep this on your plan and re-check it where the source allows.

Use our removal partner directly

Not offered today

Flggd has no removal partner to send you to today. Removing it yourself is the route that works now.

Why this stops here: Flggd has no removal partner to send you to today. If that changes, this becomes a direct route and your plan stays in place.

  • Choose the self-service option below to remove this now.

Remove it yourself

Available now

You use the broker's own official removal process. Flggd guides you and tracks the outcome where the source allows.

Open the official Spokeo opt-out
You completed your step. Flggd still needs to verify whether the listing has actually been removed. Verification is still required before Flggd can call this removed.

How protection changes this

Where you are now

  • 3 breach associations on record
  • Public profile discoverable
  • Public username connected
  • Account protection unknown

Where we're headed

  • Reduce reused-password risk
  • Turn on MFA or passkeys
  • Trim public profile where you choose
  • Address broker exposure where eligible
  • Harden your most important accounts

This is the protected state your plan is working toward, not steps already completed.

Where we're headed, not steps already done. Historical breach association cannot be erased. Completing these actions reduces how useful the exposed information is to someone trying to target you.