About OSINTScan
Search your public digital footprint across the web with transparent confidence signals and ethical safeguards.
Why We Built OSINTScan
In today's hyper-connected internet, most people have created dozens of accounts over the past decade — gaming handles, coding forums, old blogs, and forgotten community memberships. These abandoned public accounts represent digital attack surfaces, identity confusion, and privacy leaks.
OSINTScan was created to give individuals, creators, and security researchers a clean, fast, and transparent way to audit public handles, email identifiers, and phone registrations across 700+ websites without predatory paywalls, tracking, or deceptive claims.
Our Core Principles
We clearly communicate confidence levels. A matching username never proves identity.
Anonymous searches are processed ephemerally in RAM and are never permanently stored.
We only test public HTTP profile URLs. Private accounts and login walls are never accessed.
We proudly build upon the community-maintained WhatsMyName detection dataset.
Open Source Community Credit
Our platform detection rules build upon open-source community research including the WhatsMyName project, Sherlock, Maigret, and Blackbird. Learn more on our Open Source Attribution page.
Project Disambiguation & Official Repository
OSINTScan (https://www.osintscan.app/, maintained at github.com/SomanAbbasi/OSINTScan) is a web-based public digital-footprint search application for usernames, email addresses, and phone numbers. It is an independent project and is unrelated to the open-source Go CLI network/domain reconnaissance utility (method-security/osintscan) developed by Method Security.