Now it’s easy to secure you and your family’s identity with real-time monitoring, robust credit protection, live agent-supported identity recovery, and up to $2 million in identity theft insurance. Because let’s face it, an incognito window can only do so much.
Malwarebytes’ identity theft protection services offer a wide range of features to keep your and your family’s personal information safe. Depending on your plan, features fall into 3 categories:
Identity Monitoring & Alerts
Alerts you if your personal information is being illegally traded or sold across the dark web and other sources and recommends actions to take to protect yourself.
Credit Monitoring & Reporting
Ongoing tracking of your credit for critical changes, such as new accounts or inquiries. Our specialists can also help you initiate a credit freeze.
Identity Recovery & Resolution
Identity theft incident assistance to navigate the complex process of reporting the crime, disputing fraudulent charges, restoring your identity, and recouping financial losses. Includes up to $2 million identity theft insurance policy.
Some of the plans described on this page are available in the United States of America and US Territories only. For plans available in other countries, refer to our international plans.
Identity Theft Protection products are not available in all countries or territories. See here for details.
*The credit scores provided are based on the VantageScore ® 3.0 model. Lenders use a variety of credit scores and are likely to use a credit score different from VantageScore ® 3.0 to assess your credit worthiness.
A Social Security number is required for plans that include credit monitoring (Advanced & Ultimate).
Confused about what to get?
Malwarebytes Identity ESSENTIAL
Includes ongoing monitoring, rapid alerts, and recovery services to keep personal information safe – all backed by a $1 million insurance policy.
Best if you want identity protection and may already have credit monitoring from another service.
Malwarebytes Identity ADVANCED
Includes everything in Malwarebytes Identity Essential PLUS extensive social media monitoring and monthly credit reporting from 1 bureau.
Best if you want to have increased identity theft protection AND credit monitoring services all in one place.
Malwarebytes Identity ULTIMATE
Includes everything in Malwarebytes Identity Advanced PLUS financial asset monitoring, 3 bureau monthly credit reporting, and up to $2 million in insurance coverage.
Best if you want the most comprehensive coverage and want additional protection for investments and financial assets.
Comprehensive coverage from best-in-class products
We provide a robust and exhaustive suite of services to keep you safe in today’s connected world. All the products embedded in our plans are industry-leading within their respective categories, so you get the best of the best for each.
Current subscribers can use MyAccount to manage all of your Malwarebytes product licenses in one place, from anywhere.
Malwarebytes Premium Security: Award winning and top-rated security
Malwarebytes Privacy VPN: Praised for its no-log, powerful, and lightweight capabilities
Malwarebytes Browser Guard: Browser extension, so that you never have to chose between security and privacy
Malwarebytes Identity Theft Protection: Security beyond your devices with comprehensive identity protection services
Learn more about the features of our Identity Protection services
Breach IQ
Personalized safety score and risk mitigation recommendations. Alerts if your personal information is part of a known breach.
Identity Threat Alert
Keeps you updated on identity theft incidents. Sends prompt alerts so you can take immediate action. Alerts if your personal information is being illegally traded or sold across the dark web and other sources. Information monitored includes: Bank, Debit, and Credit Account Numbers, Driver’s License, Medical ID, Medical Insurance ID, Passport Number, Phone number, National ID Number (such as Social Security or Social Insurance Number), Email addresses & Usernames and passwords associated with an account.
Dark Web Monitoring
Scours thousands of websites, including those on the Dark Web, black market chat rooms, blogs, and other data sources to detect the illegal trading and selling of your personal information. Information monitored includes:
Bank, Debit, and Credit Account Number monitoring
Identity Number monitoring: Driver’s License, Medical ID, Medical Insurance ID, Passport Number, Phone number, National ID Number (such as Social Security or Social Insurance Number)
Email & Credential monitoring: Email addresses & Usernames and passwords associated with an account.
Fraud Alert Reminders
Helps you place a fraud alert on your credit file to prevent thieves from opening new lines of credit in your name.
Smart Social Security Number (SSN) Tracker
Intelligently alerts you if there’s an unfamiliar name, alias, or address associated with your SSN, which could be an indication of fraud.
Social Media Identity Monitoring
A suite of services that monitor your Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram accounts for inappropriate activity and posts that could be perceived as violent, are using profanity, or could be categorized as cyberbullying or discriminatory.
Services include:
Inappropriate Activity Monitoring
Hacked Account Monitoring
Impersonation Account Monitoring
Scams, Malware & Phishing Monitoring
Advanced Dark Web Monitoring
Expanded monitoring and alerts for those with more to protect.
Additional information monitored include:
Bank & Credit Card Transaction Alerts: Smart notifications when a charge, withdrawal, or balance transfer exceeds a dollar amount determined by you.
Investment Account Activity Alerts: An early warning detection of possible fraud related to deposits, withdrawals, duplicate transactions, or balance transfers related to your 401(K), brokerage, and financial accounts, in order to address any potential criminal activity.
Change of Address: Monitors and alerts you if your mail has been redirected through USPS without your authorization to prevent thieves from forwarding your credit card statements, bills, and other financial documents.
Court Records Monitoring: Searches millions of criminal, court, and public records to make sure your identity is not being used by unauthorized individuals.
Sex Offender Registry Monitoring: Keeps a close eye on sex offender registries to monitor for illegal use of your identity. Conducts in-depth searches to find out if a sex offender fraudulently used your personal data as their registration information, or if a sex offender moves into your neighborhood.
Fully Managed Restoration Services
Complete identity theft restoration services from Certified Protection Experts. Specialists can save you literally hundreds of hours by completing all the paperwork, making calls, and doing all the heavy lifting to make sure your identity is restored.
Includes Lost Wallet Assistance, to quickly cancel and replace credit, debit, and ATM cards if your wallet is lost or stolen.
Identity Theft Insurance
Guarantees that you recover certain out-of-pocket expenses and lost wages if your identity is stolen. Depending on your plan, insurance ranges from $1 million to $2 million and includes stolen funds reimbursement for any financial account. For policy terms, explanation of benefits and exclusions view the “Summary of Benefits” for$1Million USD Plansor$2Million USD Plans.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
How many individuals are covered with Identity Theft Protection?
We made it very simple.
For plans with Identity Theft Protection:
1 device plans include “Individual” Identity Theft Protection coverage for one adult.
2+ device plans include “Family” Identity Theft Protection coverage for two adults (age 18+) and up to ten children (under the age of 18). For children, monitoring will be managed by the primary account. Credit Activity Monitoring for children checks for the presence of a credit file and does not include Credit Reports.
Insurance Benefits under the policy are issued and covered by Lloyd’s, under a master group policy issued in the name of Cyberscout Limited, Sontiq Inc. and all subsidiaries for the benefit of members. For policy terms, explanation of benefits and exclusions view the “Summary of Benefits” for$1Million USD Plansor$2 Million USD Plans. “Family” plan insurance will cover the primary account holder and his or her household residents.
I’m already a Malwarebytes customer, how can I upgrade to these plans?
You can upgrade to any of these plans, and your subscription length won’t extend. You’ll simply pay the difference for the remaining time on your subscription.
Step 1: Sign in to your Malwarebytes account at my.malwarebytes.com.
Step 2: Click the “Upgrade” option on your Subscription page.
Step 3: Review your order and click “Submit Order.” You will receive an activation email.
Note: When you purchased Malwarebytes, we created an account for you using the email that you provided at the time of purchase.
After purchasing, how can I access my Identity Theft Protection services?
After purchasing, Identity Theft Protection Services can be accessed and activated through a portal link in MyAccount.
Identity Theft Protection services protect the personal information of individual people, not specific devices. No download is required, and you can access your online portal via MyAccount from any device.
What are the other products included in these plans?
All these plans include the following products:
Malwarebytes Premium Security Available for Windows, Mac, iOS, Android and Chromebook.
24/7 real-time protection against emerging threats without slowing you down
Advanced antivirus, anti-malware, anti-spyware & more
Malicious links/websites & phishing protection*
Ransomware, zero-day exploits, brute force and uninstall protection*
What’s the difference between Free and Premium Security products?
With Malwarebytes Free, you can manually scan and remove malware and viruses from your device. As soon as you download it, it will detect and remove all kinds of malware like viruses, spyware, and other advanced threats. To keep your device protected after your initial malware scan and removal, we recommend you get more proactive and real-time protection Malwarebytes Premium on Windows and Mac and to also expand your security with our mobile security apps on Android and iOS. (We may provide limited trials for your evaluation of our full featured solutions: 14 days for Windows and Mac and 7 days for Android and iOS)
What is Browser Guard?
Say hello to a safer, faster and cleaner browsing experience. Malwarebytes Browser Guard is a free browser extension that you can install as a plugin to your favorite web browser (Chrome, Firefox, Edge or Safari). Don’t wait and install it on all your browsers!
Now Browser Guard* comes with some exclusive features for Premium users on Windows:
Content Control: Dial up your control of your browsing experience and define what’s appropriate for you, or not. Fully customize the content you want to block while you – or your kids – are surfing. Your time is precious, set your own boundaries and truly enjoy what matters to you online.
Historical Detection Statistics: Ever wanted to go back in time and see what you avoided? Now you can! Learn more about the past detections and see what we’ve protected you from.
*Chrome, Firefox, Edge- You are automatically entitled to it with an active subscription to Malwarebytes Premium for Windows
