Usernames, passwords and so on things have became an important part of our life with the increased usage of internet day-by-day and so as the risk of being hacked increased.

Even though you have stronger passwords, it is also important to protect every bit of your personal information (Usernames, passwords, Bank account details…) to stay safe online.

And the most vulnerable place for such most sensitive information is your “Email Inbox”.

Why would your Inbox be the most vulnerable place?

• You may have sent a password to a friend through your Email account.
• You may have requested to send your a password, when you forgot it.
• You may receive monthly bank statements.
• You may have knowingly or unknowingly, saved passwords in the form of simple text on your Email.

Not just passwords, you may have other sensitive information in your Email Inbox. If a hacker just gets access to your email account, he will be gifted with a lot of information to Ruin you.
But It is nearly impossible to find such information manually.

Here where Dashlane Inbox scan comes in.

What is Dashlane Inbox Scan

The inbox scanner from Dashlane (A Popular company providing Password manager and other solutions), is a very useful to scan your emails in Inbox (Every mail) for Passwords present, Passwords Reused, Weak passwords and Any other Vulnerable information stored in the form of Simple Text, So that you can delete them before a hacker gets into it

Steps to Scan your Inbox for Vulnerable information with Dashlane

Dashlane’s Inbox scan tool is easy to use. You don’t need to register an account with Dashlane to use this tool. You just have to let Dashlane access your inbox (Temporary Read-only access). And as of now it supports Gmail, Hotmail, Aol. and Yahoo Accounts.

Follow these simple steps:

1. Go to  https://www.dashlane.com/scan and Click on Scan My Inbox. Then in the popup that appears now, Click on your Email service provider (Google, Yahoo…) and Sign into your Email account  and Grant account access.
2. Dashlane then analyses all of your emails for open passwords, Bank credentials and other vulnerable information present in your emails.

   After analysing, you will be shown all of your accounts in the form of a bubble cloud with the year. Big bubbles indicate most important accounts and small bubbles less important. The bubbles in red colour indicate that there is Plain text password of that account present in your inbox. Hovering your mouse pointer on a bubble shows you the account service name.

   
3. Now proceed to Next: Security Analysis where you will find the summary of your inbox scan with a Number of Accounts linked with your email, Reused passwords, Inbox Security Score  and a link to download full report.
   

   Now download and open this report (a PDF document). Here you can find the detailed information of passwords present in your inbox. Find and delete those Emails with such sensitive information. And after you are done Delete this report from your computer.

Tip:  To be on safer side after completion of scan Revoke the Account permission for Dashlane. If your using Gmail Go to Account permissions, Find Dashlane Scan and Click on Revoke access.

Is Dashlane Inbox Scan Safe?

It may seem absolutely stupid that we are giving Dashlane, the ability to read emails from that Email Account which we are actually trying to protect from a hacker.

But you can trust Dashlane for some reasons:

• Dashlane requires only a Temporary Read-only access to your account.
• Dashlane promises that it doesn’t store any reports or information about your account.
• This Inbox scan tool is owned by Dashlane Inc., a well-known company offering Password manager and Security services. And it is certified by BBB,  Norton security and other organisations.