Identity scan is a feature available for our iOS devices. For free, this feature has the ability to check if your online account or passwords were exposed in a breach. You can also remove your personal info from junk mail and spam lists to reduce unwanted advertising.
Steps to enable Identity Quick Scan feature:
- Tap on the "Aura Suite" symbol on the app, and from there, tap on scan for free.
- You will need to sign in with your Hotspot Shield premium subscription, but if you do not have an account, please create one.
- Once you put in your credentials to sign in or sign up, a verified email notification will be sent to the email address you originally signed up with.
- Once you have verified your email address, the Identity scan will automatically start when you re-open the app.
- If you encounter a data breach after we scan your personal info, you will see a list of sites where we found a data breach.
- If your personal info were found during a scan, we would suggest the following for the next steps.
- Secure your info by changing your account's password, and if possible, enabling multi-factor authentication.
- We recommend changing your password every 3 months.
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Full Scan is another feature that allows you to reduce spam and junk mail with a full Identity scan. This will remove your personal info from third-party vendors who sell private info to advertisers.
- After completing the steps above and reaching your results after your scan is complete, you will see the full scan feature on the top right results page.
- Tapping on that button will bring you to the start page of starting the full scan. You will also receive some background knowledge on what is "full scan."
- After tapping on the full scan feature, you will be asked 2 things. The first is if you want to remove your email from junk mail lists, place your email under that field. The second is to remove your info from third-party vendors and advertising lists. You will need to provide some personal information to initiate the full scan for both.
- Once you initiate the full scan and if your information was leaked, we will automatically remove your personal info from the vendors where it was leaked.
- What does it mean? We have removed your personal info from junk mailers and third-party vendors who sell private data to advertisers.