Your gamertag is an identifier too.
Start with the email on your gaming account: see whether it is in a known breach, free. Then watch the handle itself, and check any Discord or Steam link before you tap it.
The short answer
Updated 23 October 2026 · Reviewed by the Sigrel team, Texas
Most gaming account takeovers start with a link. A “free Nitro” DM, a fake tournament invite, a trade offer that opens a look-alike login page. The second ingredient is a reused password from an old breach. Sigrel covers both: Check tells you whether a link is a known pattern and why, and the breach view shows whether the email or the handle on your account is already in a leak, with the fix in order.
Behind every scan
What is checked, how often, and what you get back. The details, in plain words.
Sources
3 breach-intelligence partners and public leak lists
Each one named in Help with what it covers.
What we watch
6 kinds of identifier
Email, phone, username, gaming handle, email alias and your own domain. Hashed on your device first.
Schedule
Rechecked on a schedule you can see
Every result shows when it last ran. Daily on Pro.
What you get
A fix for every finding
The minutes it takes and the points it gets back. Broker removal across 200+ sites on Pro.
How Sigrel helps
Watch the handle, check the link, fix the reuse.
Watch a gaming handle
One of the six identifier kinds Sigrel watches, hashed on your device first. Free for one identifier.
Check a Discord or Steam link
Look-alike domains, urgency and fake login pages are what the verdict looks for. Five checks a day, free.
A score you can move
Two-step sign-in on the email account is the single biggest point gain for most gamers.
What is going around
Social and chat are where younger adults get hit.
Sources named and dated.
FTC · data spotlight
Younger adults report losing most often to scams that start on social media
The FTC’s spotlights break reports down by age and by where the contact started. The page links to the current edition rather than quoting a figure that goes stale.
Source ↗Sigrel · Check
Three example verdicts, including a bank “fraud alert” text
See what a verdict looks like before you need one.
Source ↗Questions
Plain answers.
Why would a gaming handle be in a breach?
Game and community sites get breached like any other, and the handle sits next to the email and the password in the dump. Watching the handle catches leaks where the email was different or missing.
Someone sent me a Discord link to “claim a free Nitro”. Is it a scam?
Almost always. Paste the link into Check and it will say why: look-alike domain, urgency, a login page that is not Discord’s. Never sign in from a link in a DM.
My Steam account was taken over. What do I do?
Use Steam Support’s recovery first, then the “I gave someone a code or password” playbook: change the email account’s password, turn on two-step sign-in, check which breaches include you.
Can I watch my handle without giving you my real name?
Yes. Sigrel does not ask for a name to watch an identifier, and identifiers are hashed on your device before anything is compared.
Is there a student price?
The free tier watches one identifier with the Wire and five checks a day. Core is $89 a year for six identifiers. No student plan yet.
Watch a handle, free.
One identifier on the free tier, hashed on your device.