How can I check whether my eMail is listed on the Dark Web or Not?

The worst nightmare of anyone is to discover that their email is listed on the dark web. It could be just lying on the dark web for everyone to see, but this could also mean that your email is still at risk of being hacked or could trigger a chain reaction, meaning all of your other information which is lying on the web could be easily exposed now. 

The best way to go ahead in this situation are the following: 

1. Change your email passwords immediately.
2. However, if a virus which logs all your online activity is already on your laptop, then changing your passwords will also be logged, so it is best to first do a thorough scan of your laptop or computer. 
3. If you already do not have an anti-virus software installed on your laptop, then it is time you do. McAfee, Kaspersky, Avast etc are reputed anti-virus software. 
4. If you have a good anti-virus software installed, then make sure it is updated to the latest version. 
5. Make sure you do a complete scan of your computer to detect any virus lying somewhere in your laptop. 
6. Ensure you create a very difficult and long password with 15 characters long, include special characters, numbers, capital and small case letters in your password, and make sure you do not include date of births or personal or family names.
7. Set-up a two-factor authentication on your emails. 
8. Create an untraceable email account. This can be a dark web email address which is used to register on dark web sites, can be used as a garbage email, where you get all kinds of promotional emails etc.
9. You can find secure email providers or free encrypted email providers on the dark web, but one needs to be careful, as you could go to the wrong URL of the email encryption service providers. 
10. Choose dark web email provider which is trusted and does not require your personal information. It is important to use a reputed dark web email service on the dark web, so that you can safely browse and also keep your personal and financial information safe and secure. 

Advantages of creating an anonymous email account: 

1. Your own anonymous email account
2. Send and receive encrypted emails without getting traced. 
3. The encrypted email address can be used to register on any onion website with complete anonymity. 

Access your own untraceable email account in the following way: 

1. Open TOR browser on Google, download the browser on a USB drive, plug it and start using it in any device. 
2. Insert this URL - http://zmailaone5l2x2i6.onion/ on TOR browser.  
3. Create a base Zmail.email account without giving any other information. 

It is absolutely safe to create anonymous email account, for more information on an anonymous email provider, click here.