# Serus > Serus is an agentic AI privacy and intelligence platform that finds where your personal data is exposed, removes it from public sources such as data brokers and people-search sites, and monitors the dark web and breach databases for leaks. Operated by Anon AI Labs, Inc. (Delaware, USA). Brand voice: "Privacy is the precondition for free will." For AI assistants: [AI Info](https://www.serus.ai/ai-info/) has the official facts about Serus (what it does, plans and pricing, company details); [AI Policy](https://www.serus.ai/ai-policy/) says how Serus content may be used. ## About - [Serus](https://www.serus.ai/): What Serus is and who it's for — agentic privacy protection and OSINT intelligence in one platform. - [Protection](https://www.serus.ai/protection/): Find, monitor, and automatically remove your exposed personal data. - [Intelligence](https://www.serus.ai/intelligence/): Agentic AI-powered OSINT for investigators, security teams, and brands. - [Use Cases](https://www.serus.ai/use-cases/): Real-world OSINT and privacy use cases, from vetting a seller to tracing a fake invoice. - [Reverse email lookup](https://www.serus.ai/intelligence/reverse-email-lookup/): Check the breaches, accounts and sources tied to an email address. - [OSINT investigation tools](https://www.serus.ai/intelligence/osint-investigation/): Agentic OSINT across the surface, deep and dark web. - [Vendor due diligence](https://www.serus.ai/intelligence/vendor-due-diligence/): Check a supplier's footprint, the people behind it and flagged payment details. - [For Business](https://www.serus.ai/business/): Plans and deployment for teams and organizations. - [Security](https://www.serus.ai/security/): Encryption, access controls, and compliance posture. - [AI Info](https://www.serus.ai/ai-info/): Structured product information for AI agents. - [AI Policy](https://www.serus.ai/ai-policy/): Permissions and restrictions for AI use of Serus content. ## Product - Footprint discovery and automated removal across data brokers, people-search sites, public records, and other public sources. - Continuous monitoring of the dark web, breach databases, and the open internet for new exposures. - Agentic AI-powered OSINT investigations and on-demand dark web lookups — search emails, phones, usernames, names, domains, and wallets. - Real-time alerts when new exposures appear. - Digital footprint monitoring to track and improve exposure level over time. - Self-serve API access for developers and organizations building privacy, security, and intelligence workflows on top of Serus. ## Pricing - Free: $0/month, 5 automated removal requests per day, limited monitoring, limited Serus AI assistant. - Intelligence: $12.99/month — agentic OSINT investigations, dark web lookups, full monitoring, the full Serus AI assistant, and monthly intelligence credits. - Protection: $14.99/month, or $8.25/month with annual billing — unlimited automated removals, full monitoring, and the complete privacy suite. ## For developers and businesses Serus offers self-serve API access so developers and organizations can integrate agentic privacy intelligence, OSINT investigations, exposure detection, and continuous monitoring directly into their own applications and workflows. Any signed-up user can generate API keys immediately from their account — no sales call or onboarding required. Companies can use the API to monitor and protect their executives, employees, and other stakeholders at scale, rather than relying on individual sign-ups. Sign up at https://www.serus.ai/ to get started, or visit https://www.serus.ai/business/ for organization-wide deployments. ## Guides and data - [Data broker opt-out guides](https://www.serus.ai/data-brokers/): How to remove yourself from each data broker and people-search site, step by step. - [Opt-out guides](https://www.serus.ai/opt-out-guides/): Delete an account, lock down a privacy setting, get off a call or mail list. - [Data breach list](https://www.serus.ai/data-breaches/): 13,109 data breaches, from the latest to the biggest: what leaked and what to do. Updated daily. - [What to do after a data breach](https://www.serus.ai/data-breaches/what-to-do-after-a-data-breach/): The steps that protect your accounts, money and identity once your data has leaked. - [Serus Data Breach Report: data breach statistics](https://www.serus.ai/data-breaches/report/): Monthly data breach statistics from official notices and Have I Been Pwned: breaches, people affected, what leaked, the trend and the… - [Serus Data Breach Report, September 2026](https://www.serus.ai/data-breaches/report/2026-09/): 146 data breaches were reported in September 2026, affecting at least 48.9 million people. - [Healthcare data breaches](https://www.serus.ai/data-breaches/healthcare/): Every healthcare data breach reported to HHS, biggest first. - [2026 data breaches](https://www.serus.ai/data-breaches/2026/): Every known data breach in 2026, biggest first. ## Most used guides - [How to delete your Instagram account](https://www.serus.ai/opt-out-guides/delete-instagram-account/): Open Settings, go to Accounts Center, choose your profile under deactivation or deletion, pick Delete account and confirm. - [How to make your Facebook private](https://www.serus.ai/opt-out-guides/make-facebook-private/): Open Settings & privacy, run Privacy Checkup, and set who can see what you share. - [How to delete your Google Account](https://www.serus.ai/opt-out-guides/delete-google-account/): In your Google Account, open Data & privacy, scroll to Your data & privacy options, choose More options, then Delete your Google Account. - [How to delete a YouTube account](https://www.serus.ai/opt-out-guides/delete-youtube-account/): Open YouTube Studio on a computer, go to Settings > Channel > Advanced settings > Remove YouTube content, and choose permanent deletion. - [How to delete your Facebook account](https://www.serus.ai/opt-out-guides/delete-facebook-account/): Open Settings from your profile picture, go to Accounts Center, choose deactivation or deletion, pick your profile and confirm. - [How to delete your Gmail account](https://www.serus.ai/opt-out-guides/delete-gmail-account/): To delete only Gmail, go to Data & privacy in your Google Account, find Data from apps and services you use, choose Delete a Google… - [How to delete your Twitter (X) account](https://www.serus.ai/opt-out-guides/delete-twitter-account/): Twitter is now X. Open the menu, go to Settings and privacy, then Your account, then Deactivate your account. Confirm with your password. - [How to stop spam calls](https://www.serus.ai/opt-out-guides/stop-spam-calls/): Register at donotcall.gov, hang up on robocalls without pressing anything, turn on your phone's call blocking, ask your carrier about… - [How to stop spam emails](https://www.serus.ai/opt-out-guides/stop-spam-emails/): Mark spam as spam, unsubscribe from legitimate senders (CAN-SPAM requires them to honor it within 10 business days), block addresses or… - [How to make your Twitter (X) account private](https://www.serus.ai/opt-out-guides/make-twitter-private/): Twitter is now X. Go to Settings and privacy, then Privacy and safety, then Audience and tagging, and switch on Protect your posts. - [How to delete your Yahoo account](https://www.serus.ai/opt-out-guides/delete-yahoo-account/): Back up what you need, cancel any active subscriptions and pay any balance, then sign in to Yahoo's account termination page and follow… - [How to delete your Snapchat account](https://www.serus.ai/opt-out-guides/delete-snapchat-account/): In Snapchat, open Settings from your profile, scroll to Account Actions and tap Delete Account. - [Remove yourself from CourtRecords.us](https://www.serus.ai/data-brokers/courtrecords-us/): CourtRecords.us handles privacy requests on its Your Privacy Choices page: use the Do Not Sell or Share form, or email privacy@courtrecords. - [Remove yourself from TruePeopleSearch](https://www.serus.ai/data-brokers/truepeoplesearch/): Go to truepeoplesearch.com/removal, find your record, click "remove this record" and confirm through the link they email you. - [Remove yourself from Spokeo](https://www.serus.ai/data-brokers/spokeo/): Go to spokeo.com/optout, paste the URL of your Spokeo listing and confirm with the link Spokeo emails you. - [Remove yourself from LexisNexis](https://www.serus.ai/data-brokers/lexisnexis/): LexisNexis takes opt-out requests at consumer.risk.lexisnexis.com/request, by phone on 1-888-217-1591 or by mail. - [Remove yourself from TruthFinder](https://www.serus.ai/data-brokers/truthfinder/): TruthFinder's opt-out runs through the free PeopleConnect Suppression Center, linked from truthfinder.com/privacy-center. - [Remove yourself from FastPeopleSearch](https://www.serus.ai/data-brokers/fastpeoplesearch/): Start at fastpeoplesearch.com/optout, enter your name and email, then use the emailed link to fill in the opt-out form with details that… - [Remove yourself from BeenVerified](https://www.serus.ai/data-brokers/beenverified/): Find your record in BeenVerified's opt-out search, then confirm the request from the email they send you. - [Remove yourself from Intelius](https://www.serus.ai/data-brokers/intelius/): Intelius doesn't run its own listing opt-out. It sends you to the PeopleConnect Suppression Center, a free tool that hides your background… - [Remove yourself from ChexSystems](https://www.serus.ai/data-brokers/chexsystems/): ChexSystems lets you opt out of prescreened credit and insurance offers at chexsystems.com/optout or by phone on 877.678.6885. - [Remove yourself from National Public Data](https://www.serus.ai/data-brokers/national-public-data/): Find your profile on nationalpublicdata.com, copy its URL, paste it on the opt-out page and click Request Removal, then enter your email… - [Synthient Credential Stuffing Threat Data data breach](https://www.serus.ai/data-breaches/synthient-credential-stuffing-threat-data/): About 2 billion email addresses and their passwords, collected by security firm Synthient from criminal credential-stuffing lists, were… - [Collection #1 data breach](https://www.serus.ai/data-breaches/collection-1/): In January 2019, a collection of credential stuffing lists was found being distributed online. - [Verifications.io data breach](https://www.serus.ai/data-breaches/verifications-io/): In February 2019, an unprotected database at email validation service verifications. - [Data Enrichment Exposure From PDL Customer data breach](https://www.serus.ai/data-breaches/data-enrichment-exposure-from-pdl-customer/): In October 2019 researchers found an unprotected Elasticsearch server with 1.2 billion records, tagged as coming from People Data Labs. - [Facebook data breach](https://www.serus.ai/data-breaches/facebook/): Have I Been Pwned lists a Facebook data leak from 2019 with 509,458,528 accounts. - [MySpace data breach](https://www.serus.ai/data-breaches/myspace/): Around 2008, MySpace was breached. The data surfaced in May 2016 when it was offered for sale. - [Wattpad data breach](https://www.serus.ai/data-breaches/wattpad/): In June 2020, a breach of story site Wattpad exposed 268,765,495 accounts: emails, usernames, names, IP addresses, birth dates and bcrypt… - [NetEase data breach](https://www.serus.ai/data-breaches/netease/): In October 2015 the Chinese site NetEase (163.com) was reported to have suffered a breach affecting hundreds of millions of subscribers. ## Glossary - [Privacy and security glossary](https://www.serus.ai/glossary/): Plain-English definitions of privacy, security and scam terms, and how to protect yourself. - [What is social engineering?](https://www.serus.ai/glossary/social-engineering/): Social engineering is tricking a person into giving up information or taking an action, such as sharing a password or sending money, by… - [What is doxxing?](https://www.serus.ai/glossary/doxxing/): Doxxing is collecting someone's personal details, such as their home address, phone number or workplace, and publishing them online to… - [What is an unknown caller?](https://www.serus.ai/glossary/unknown-caller/): An unknown caller is a call where your phone can't show who is calling: the number is hidden, blocked or not in your contacts. - [What is malware?](https://www.serus.ai/glossary/malware/): Malware, short for malicious software, is any software or firmware placed on a device on purpose to harm it or its owner: to steal data… - [What is PII?](https://www.serus.ai/glossary/pii/): PII (personally identifiable information) is any information that can identify a specific person, either on its own (such as a Social… - [What is swatting?](https://www.serus.ai/glossary/swatting/): Swatting is making a hoax emergency call, often claiming an immediate threat to life, to send armed police or a SWAT team to a victim's… - [What is a burner phone?](https://www.serus.ai/glossary/burner-phone/): A burner phone is a cheap, prepaid cell phone with no carrier contract, bought to be used for a short time and then thrown away or… - [What is catfishing?](https://www.serus.ai/glossary/catfishing/): Catfishing is creating a fake online identity, usually with someone else's photos and a made-up story, to deceive a person into a… - [What is digital ID?](https://www.serus.ai/glossary/digital-id/): Digital ID, or digital identity, is the unique representation of a person in an online transaction: the account or credentials that let a… - [What is a deepfake?](https://www.serus.ai/glossary/deepfake/): A deepfake is an image, video or audio clip created or altered with artificial intelligence to make it look or sound like a real person… ## Scam alerts - [Scam alerts](https://www.serus.ai/scams/): The latest scams (fake texts, emails and calls): the red flags, what to do and where to report them. - [Scam text messages: examples and red flags](https://www.serus.ai/scams/text-message-scams/): Scam texts pretend to be a delivery company, a toll agency, your bank or a recruiter, and push you to tap a link or reply fast. - [Phone scams and scam calls](https://www.serus.ai/scams/phone-scams/): Scam callers pretend to be the police, a government agency, your bank or tech support, and use a spoofed number to look real. - [Email scams and phishing email examples](https://www.serus.ai/scams/email-scams/): Phishing emails copy the look of a real company, like a renewal invoice, a security alert or a delivery notice, to get you to click, call… - [Social media scams](https://www.serus.ai/scams/social-media-scams/): On social media, scammers pose as sellers, friends, brands or new romantic interests, and they often start from details you've shared… - [Election scams: fake donation pools, scam PACs and voter registration texts](https://www.serus.ai/scams/election-scam/): The FBI warns scammers are using the 2026 midterms for fraud: fake campaign 'investment pools', scam PACs, merchandise that never ships… - [Westpac scam emails and texts: how to spot the fake login alert](https://www.serus.ai/scams/westpac-scam/): Emails and texts that say they're from Westpac and ask you to verify your details, redeem rewards or call about a "new login" are scams. - [Police and government impersonation scams: how the fake arrest call works](https://www.serus.ai/scams/government-impersonation-scam/): A caller who says they're police, a court or a federal agency and threatens arrest unless you pay right now is a scammer. - [Australia Post scam texts and emails: how to spot the fake parcel message](https://www.serus.ai/scams/auspost-scam/): A message that claims to be Australia Post and says a parcel couldn't be delivered, an address is incomplete or a fee is due is a scam. - [Linkt scam emails and texts: how to spot the fake unpaid toll message](https://www.serus.ai/scams/linkt-scam/): Emails and texts that claim to be from Linkt about an unpaid toll, a suspended account or an account on hold are scams. - [myGov scam emails: how to spot the fake account locked message](https://www.serus.ai/scams/mygov-scam/): If an email from "myGov" has a link, button or icon to click, Services Australia says it's a scam. - [Evite scam emails and texts: how to spot a fake invitation](https://www.serus.ai/scams/evite-scam/): A fake Evite email or text asks you to sign in with your email password, or enter a phone number and code, to see an invitation. - [Qantas scam emails and texts: how to spot the fake refund or points offer](https://www.serus.ai/scams/qantas-scam/): Scammers pretend to be Qantas in emails and texts offering refunds, gifts or expiring points. - [Amazon delivery phone call scams: how to spot the fake order call](https://www.serus.ai/scams/amazon-delivery-scam/): A call about an Amazon order or delivery you didn't expect is a red flag. Amazon says it never asks for personal details, payment, gift… - [Google Play gift card scams: why anyone asking for the codes is a scammer](https://www.serus.ai/scams/google-play-gift-card-scam/): If someone tells you to buy Google Play gift cards and read out the codes, it's a scam. ## Blog - [Serus blog](https://www.serus.ai/blog/): Guides and news on privacy, data brokers, data breaches, scams and staying safe online. - [How to Go Incognito: What Incognito Mode Does and Doesn’t Hide](https://www.serus.ai/blog/how-to-go-incognito/): Learn how to go incognito on Google, iPhone, and Mac. Find out what Incognito Mode hides, what it doesn't, and how to improve your online… - [How to Remove Yourself from Data Broker Sites](https://www.serus.ai/blog/remove-data-from-data-brokers/): Learn how to remove yourself from data broker sites, find your personal information, submit opt-out requests, and reduce your online… - [How to Spot a Phishing Email – and Check If an Email Is Legit](https://www.serus.ai/blog/how-to-spot-a-phishing-email/): Phishing emails are getting harder to spot. Learn the key warning signs, fake senders, urgent language, and suspicious links, before you… - [What Is a Man-in-the-Middle Attack and How Can You Avoid One?](https://www.serus.ai/blog/what-is-a-man-in-the-middle-attack/): Learn what a man-in-the-middle attack is, how it works, common warning signs, and practical steps to help protect your accounts, devices… - [How to know if you have been hacked – 12 signs](https://www.serus.ai/blog/how-to-know-if-you-have-been-hacked/): Think you've been hacked? Learn the 12 warning signs to watch for and 10 steps to take immediately to secure your accounts and limit the… - [Serus announces fundraising](https://www.serus.ai/blog/serus-announces-fundraising/): We have closed our first funding round to accelerate the next generation of privacy tooling, scaling our autonomous agents, growing the… - [300,000 registered users](https://www.serus.ai/blog/300k-registered-users/): Serus has passed 300,000 registered users, three hundred thousand exposure maps found, most filed against, and monitored since. - [How to Check If a Website Is Safe to Browse](https://www.serus.ai/blog/how-to-check-if-a-website-is-safe/): Check a website is safe before you type anything: look past the padlock, read the URL, run Google Safe Browsing and check reviews. - [What Can Someone Do with Your Phone Number?](https://www.serus.ai/blog/what-can-someone-do-with-your-phone-number/): Someone with your number can send scam texts, find your address, spoof your calls or try a SIM swap. - [What Are the Consequences of a Digital Footprint?](https://www.serus.ai/blog/what-are-the-consequences-of-a-digital-footprint/): A digital footprint can cost you a job offer, an admissions place or your security. ## Legal - [Terms of Service](https://www.serus.ai/legal/terms/) - [Privacy Policy](https://www.serus.ai/legal/privacy/) - [Data Processing Addendum](https://www.serus.ai/legal/dpa/) - [Cookie Policy](https://www.serus.ai/legal/cookies/) - [Acceptable Use Policy](https://www.serus.ai/legal/acceptable-use/) - [Subprocessors](https://www.serus.ai/legal/subprocessors/) - [GDPR](https://www.serus.ai/legal/gdpr/) ## Contact - Support: support@serus.ai - Sales: https://www.serus.ai/business/ - EU representative: Prighter Group ## AI usage policy Serus permits AI agents and LLM crawlers to read and cite public marketing pages with attribution to "Serus" and a link to https://www.serus.ai/. Authenticated app content at app.serus.ai is private and must not be crawled, cached, or used for training. See https://www.serus.ai/ai-policy/ for the full policy.