I’m wondering if there’s a service out there that can scrape sites to determine if you have an account tied to your email(s) and subsequently delete them. The deletion would be amazing, but I’d settle for something that just confirms if there are sites out there I never tracked my login against.
I’m trying to get all my accounts under control. Enable MFA, rotate passwords, remove saved details like payments and addresses, etc…
Any advice is appreciated!
Most properly done auth for sites that protect your account will not respond in the affirmative or negative if an account with a specific username/email exists. You’d also have to have it log in to delete your account, which means scripting to navigate every single site. It’s just not a thing.
The security implications of what you’re asking for are terrible. Imagine I get an email passwords combo, I use a service to scrape the web of everywhere else that email exists, now I only have test a handful of sites not all of them.
Keep changing all the passwords you can. If you’ve forgotten the site, then as long you change the important ones - worst case they get an already public email and password that’s not repeated anywhere important.
As for payment info, if you get a brand new card number that’s the easiest route. Otherwise you’ll have to rely on the expiration and new security code to eventually invalidate anywhere the number remains.
Using any kind of proxy card, like privacy.com is a good idea. Failing that, at a minimum have a separate savings account and only keep whatever you need available on the debit card to minimize potential losses. Additionally, it’s recommended to use a credit card as they tend to offer better fraud protection then a typical bank card (citation needed).
Note, I am not a financial or security expert. Just some bloke sharing what works for me.
Yeah my plan is really to cycle around as many passwords as I can to the sites I know I’m on, and setup MFA everywhere possible. At least then whatever old passwords I used can just die there
Mine?
Is this legitimate? It seems odd to grant a company access to my emails. I assumed it would scrape the internet to find these details. It won’t find much in my inbox as I try to keep it very clean.
Also, it’s a paid service?
I tried it once a few years ago and it seemed to work fine enough for me. I can’t say how exactly it works now, but there is (or at least used to be) a free plan with limited functionality, so I figured it might be interesting to you
What you’re looking for does not exist. Sorry.
If it doesn’t exist that’s okay, figured it was good to check in with the community 👍
Well, I’m honestly curious as to how that would work, so I guess just about how you though this would go.
