For Investigative Journalists
Track leaks and threat trails with precision.
Follow data leaks tied to persons of interest, agencies, or investigations — across forums, darknets, and breach archives.
Source
Timestamp
Artifact
"Leadership instructed to suppress breach-related queries from staff."
Tags
Linked Actor
Risk Score
87%
Start with search. Stay for what’s coming.
Key Capabilities
Start investigating smarter.
Search breach data, trace digital footprints, and protect your identity — all in one secure platform.
Challenges for investigative journalists
Follow the leak, not a dozen tabs of tools.
HackCheck helps journalists trace digital evidence, confirm context, and stay safer while they report on high‑impact stories.
Verifying leaks under tight deadlines
Reporters need to validate if a leak is real, recent, and relevant—without spending days on manual checks.
Tracing digital trails across scattered sources
Documents, dumps, and forum posts live across different platforms, making it hard to follow the full story.
Staying safe while investigating sensitive targets
Journalists can’t afford to expose their own identities or devices while digging into criminal infrastructure.
Protecting sources and editorial teams
Editors need to understand exposure risk for staff and collaborators without slowing reporting to a halt.
Real-time leak landscape
See how fast breaches and dumps are growing while you report.
Use HackCheck's live telemetry to understand the scale of exposure behind your story—how many credentials, machines, and records are being compromised right now.
How HackCheck fits your reporting workflow
From first tip to final draft, with breach intel built in.
Use HackCheck to move from a leaked file or rumor to a fully traced digital story—with timelines, sources, and risk surfaced along the way.
Search
Find leaks tied to your subject
Search breaches and underground sources by email, domain, alias, or keyword to surface relevant dumps and artefacts.
Trace
Follow timelines and connections
See when data first appeared, where it moved, and how it connects to other leaks or actors you're tracking.
Secure
Bring evidence home safely
Export artefacts and context for your newsroom without exposing your own identity or devices to unnecessary risk.
Use cases for investigative teams
Built for long‑form investigations and quick hits alike.
Whether you're working on a months‑long series or tomorrow's front page, HackCheck gives you one place to anchor breach‑driven stories.
Source
Timestamp
Artifact
"Leadership instructed to suppress breach-related queries from staff."
Tags
Linked Actor
Risk Score
87%
Background a person of interest
See where a subject's identities, aliases, or domains show up in breach data and underground sources.
Follow a leak across time
Track how a document or dataset moved from one forum or dump to another, and who amplified it.
Connect artefacts to bigger stories
Link a single memo or dump to a pattern of behavior across multiple incidents, companies, or agencies.
Quantify impact for your readers
Back up your reporting with realistic numbers on compromised credentials, machines, and records.
Safety, anonymity & source protection
Investigate sensitive stories without adding new risks.
Use HackCheck to keep your own accounts, devices, and collaborators safer while you're looking into high‑risk targets and leaks.
Built with newsroom OPSEC in mind
- Separate investigative identities from personal accounts.
- Limit who can see and export sensitive breach artefacts.
- Keep an auditable trail of how data was accessed and used.
Support for editors and legal
Give decision‑makers enough context to evaluate risk without handing them raw dumps or high‑risk access.
Protect sources while using breach intel
Use consistent patterns for how breach data is stored and shared so you can better protect who you work with and report on.
Outcomes for investigative journalists
Turn breach intelligence into stories that land.
HackCheck helps you move faster from rumor to reporting—with the receipts to back up what you publish.
Reduction in time to validate a leak
Spend less time proving a breach is real and more time telling the story behind it.
Increase in stories backed by breach data
Use breach intel to add depth and proof points to investigative pieces and daily coverage.
Fewer manual hops between tools
Anchor your breach‑driven reporting in one workspace instead of juggling exports and screenshots.
