Google to offer dark web monitoring for free. But your data is possibly already there and vulnerable [Video]

Your personal data, whether it’s passwords, credit card numbers and other online account information, is quite possibly available on the dark web, just waiting to be exploited — if it hasn’t been already. 

You likely wouldn’t even realize it until it’s too late and one of your email or social media accounts is compromised or your credit card is scammed.

In an effort to help its users, Google, one of the world’s largest tech companies, will begin offering all users its dark web monitoring reports free of charge later this month.

It’s a service that was primarily available to paid subscribers of Google One, its enhanced security and storage service, and on a limited basis to users of its email platform, Gmail. It will be available in at least 46 countries and territories, including Canada, where it’s already offered to Google One and Gmail users.

Cybersecurity experts applaud it as …