
What do supermarkets, universities, hospitals, police forces, dating apps, charities, banks, airlines, video game developers, and ISPs all have in common? They’ve all been involved in data breaches, collectively putting billions of customer records at risk.
You’d be forgiven for giving up on data protection given the nonstop barrage of news detailing all the ways your data has been accessed, misused and harvested. After all, if reputed companies and national institutions can’t keep your data secure, how can you be expected to protect yourself?
How Surfshark One helps protect your data
Every time you register with, buy from, or subscribe to an online shop or service, it stores a record of any details you handed over – your name, address, email, phone number and very often your payment details too.
If that company, site or service is then victim to a data breach – of which there have been a nasty spate in 2025 – then your identity and payment details may fall into the hands of criminals who try to get to your money.
Just take a look at the recently launched Proton Observatory or Surfshark’s own free data leak tool for an idea how bad things are.
A VPN, on its own, is not going to help with this but some VPNs, like Surfshark, include some handy tools that will.
Surfshark’s Alternative ID lets you create throw-away email addresses to help to keep your real one secure, while its Alerts feature will keep you updated should your information ever be found in a leaked database. Both are included with a Surfshark One subscription.
If you want to take data protection even further, then you can always up the ante with the Surfshark One+ plan. It includes Incogni service which removes your information from data brokers’ websites, keeping your details off the web for good.
We rate Surfshark as the best cheap VPN and the second best VPN overall. It comes with a 30-day money back guarantee and a 7-day free trial both of which should give you enough of a taste of whether you’ll find it useful.
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