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Ask HN: Is There a Service to Test Your Own Online Security?
Recently, I've seen quite a few warnings about data breaches, social engineering and people getting their accounts compromised in general. It's pretty scary stuff, and the comments about how most people would be affected by it kind of terrifies me.
However, at the same I also feel I wouldn't be affected due to my security practices. These include using a different randomly generated password for every site, not clicking links from any email or social media message I didn't set off myself (like from a lost password process) and generally being cautious about fake login pages and phishing.
However, I acknowledge I don't really know this. I mean yeah I haven't had any accounts hacked so far, but I really don't know whether that's due to skill, luck or simply not being targeted by anyone at the moment.
So is there a way I can put this to the test? Like a service where you sign up and they see whether they can hijack your accounts with various social engineering tactics?
Ideally with the guarantee that the service wouldn't try and hack your accounts afterwards or wouldn't sell your personal data to the highest bidder on some dark web marketplace.
Does anything like this exist online?