By Ben Schoon
Publication Date: 2025-12-15 15:45:00
One of the lesser-known features that Google offers is a “Dark Web Report” monitoring tool, but it’s about to shut down in early 2026.
Google has just sent out an email to active users of its “Dark Web Report” tool to inform them that, as of February 16, 2026, the tool will be shut down.
The feature was made available to all Google account holders in July 2024, with this shutdown coming less than a year and a half after the wide rollout.
This tool would monitor the dark web – a hidden part of the internet accessed through special browsers and often used for malicious or illegal activities – for your Google account’s email address. It was a free part of your Google account that simply provided updates on if your email was found on these potentially dangerous sites.
On a support page, Google explains that it will be shutting down this tool because it “didn’t provide helpful next…