Overview
- New scanning halts on January 15, 2026, and the feature is fully retired on February 16, 2026, when all monitoring profiles will be deleted automatically.
- The tool began as a Google One perk before expanding to all consumer accounts and scanned illicit leak collections for personal identifiers, with Workspace accounts excluded.
- Users do not need to act for deletion but can remove their monitoring profiles manually now if they prefer to stop participating sooner.
- Google directs users to Security Checkup, Google Password Manager’s leak checks, and the Results about you tool, alongside two‑factor authentication and passkeys.
- Those who want ongoing dark‑web monitoring can turn to services such as Have I Been Pwned, HPI and University of Bonn identity leak checkers, or commercial options including Experian, Mozilla Monitor Plus, NordPass, and Bitwarden.