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The email alias provider SimpleLogin, owned by Proton since 2022, has recently launched the possibility of enabling the control of all your aliases within data breaches.
This news arrives a few weeks later dark web monitoring by Proton Mail and aliases created on Proton Pass. Controlling SimpleLogin will be a little different though. In fact, only the database will be checked HaveIBeenPwned while on Proton emails it is also used Constella Intelligence.
Data breach control also arrives on SimpleLogin
We find this option very interesting since in this way it will also be possible to keep under control all the aliases that are created. Considering that the objective of these services is to have a different alias for each registration, it is clear how much this control can make the difference.
We also tried looking at other alias services to see if anyone else offers this type of service but we couldn't find confirmation anywhere. On our account Addy we didn't find this setting anywhere. Not even Firefox Relay, which would also be available Firefox Monitor, it seems to us that it does not offer this service.
Obviously happy to be proven wrong and to update the article!
What are aliases for?
As we have already been able to explain in our article dedicated to aliases, it's definitely a good idea to use them to prevent your personal email address from coming to a bad end. Even if you are always careful, in fact the data breach it's around the corner.
If a site on which you are registered comes laundry your email address, along with other important information, is at anyone's mercy. Having an email alias and being able to check if your account has been found in any database is important because you can intervene in a few seconds. In fact, you can easily disable the alias and change the email address with which you are registered on that service.
However, if you don't use an alias when your address is disclosed you can do little or nothing about it and sooner or later it will be used for some spam campaign or phishing.
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