Your credentials are already out there. The only question is who finds them first.
Long before a breach makes the news, the evidence is usually sitting in the open — a batch of employee logins pasted to a leak site, a customer database traded on a Tor forum, an API key committed to the wrong repository, an executive’s reused password buried in a combolist. None of it is hidden, exactly. It’s just somewhere nobody on your team has the time — or the safe tooling — to look.
That gap is the whole attack. Stolen credentials don’t announce themselves. They show up later as a login that looks legitimate, an invoice that looks routine, a password reset that looks like helpdesk noise. By then the quiet window — the one where you could have rotated a password and moved on — has closed.
Critical Path Security watches for your data in the places it gets traded, sold, and dumped — and tells you while you can still do something about it.
What you actually get
This is a managed service, not a portal login and good luck. Our analysts run it on your behalf, and anything that reaches you has already been checked by a human.
- An alert when your data surfaces — naming what leaked, where it appeared, when it was posted, and which of your people or systems are affected.
- A recommended action, not a research project. Rotate this credential, force resets on these accounts, revoke this key, notify this customer. The finding arrives with the decision already framed.
- Verification before you’re interrupted. Analysts separate genuine exposure from recycled dumps, scraper noise, and false matches — so when an alert reaches you, it means something.
- A baseline of what’s already exposed. Most organizations are carrying historical leaks they’ve never seen. We start by telling you exactly where you stand today.
- Escalation into your existing response. Findings land in OpsCentre alongside your other security signals — and if you’re an MDR client, straight to the same team already watching your environment.
What we’re watching for
We tune the monitoring to your organization — your domains, your brand names, your executives, your products — and flag the kinds of exposure that actually cause damage:
- Employee and customer credentials — the raw material for account takeover and business email compromise.
- API keys, tokens, and secrets — routinely leaked through misconfigured repositories and careless pastes, and rarely noticed by the team that owns them.
- Personal and customer data — the exposures that carry breach-notification and regulatory consequences.
- Financial and payment data, along with the cryptocurrency addresses that typically accompany extortion and criminal trade.
- Mentions of your brand and executives — including the chatter that precedes an attack rather than following it.
How it works
The engine underneath is AIL (Analysis of Information Leaks), an open-source intelligence framework built by CIRCL, the Computer Incident Response Center Luxembourg, for discovering leaked information at scale. Critical Path Security operates a hardened deployment of it and feeds the output into our OpsCentre platform.
In practice, three things happen continuously without ever involving your team.
We reach the places you shouldn’t have to
Paste sites, leak repositories, and Tor and I2P hidden services are crawled from purpose-built, isolated infrastructure. Nobody at your organization needs to open a hostile .onion site, and nothing ever touches your network.
We recognize data, not just words
Keyword matching alone produces noise. The platform identifies the shape of leaked data — that this string is a credential pair, that one is an API key, that block is PII — so exposure is classified by what it is and how serious it is, not merely by the fact that your name appeared somewhere.
We connect it to everything else we see
Every finding carries full metadata — first seen, last checked, tags, status — so it can be pivoted and correlated rather than read in isolation. And because this runs alongside Malicious Domain Discovery, a leaked credential and a look-alike domain targeting the same brand arrive as one connected story instead of two unrelated alerts.
Why this isn’t a dark web scan
Plenty of vendors will sell you a one-time dark-web report, or a dashboard that emails you every time your domain shows up in any dump anywhere. Both fail the same way: a scan is a snapshot of a moving target, and an unfiltered feed teaches your team to ignore it.
Continuous monitoring catches the leak that happens next month. Human verification means the alerts you do get are worth reading. The goal was never to prove your data is out there — it’s to change what happens next.
Find out what’s already exposed
Most organizations are surprised by their own baseline. We’ll check your brands, domains, and executive identities against what’s already circulating, then walk you through what we find — what’s still dangerous, what’s stale, and what to do about each.