# 🤩 Embarking on Your Hacking Journey: A Guide for Beginners
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**Join us on this captivating journey and become part of a vibrant community passionate about ethical hacking**<mark style="color:green;">**.**</mark> Together, let's explore the fascinating world of cybersecurity, unlock new possibilities, and elevate our skills to greater heights. Embrace the thrill of hacking, share knowledge, and connect with like-minded individuals who share your passion. Join us now and embark on this beautiful journey together!
* [Whatsmyname](https://whatsmyname.app/) – This is my favourite one. It is pretty fast and shows only websites where the username is taken, which excludes a lot of visual noise.
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* [Instantusername](https://instantusername.com/#/) – A pretty good username checker, but like all of them, still provides false results on some social networks. For example, on Tinder it might show that the username is taken, when, in fact, it is not. Checks more than 100 networks.
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* [Checkusernames](http://checkusernames.com/) – Another online username checker, but might have false results as well. For example, it might show that the username is not available, but when following the link you get to the 404 page (eg. Imgur, Flickr). Checks 160 social networks.
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* [Socialcatfish](https://socialcatfish.com/) – This one checks across many resources, but it takes too long to generate a report, and in the end it requires payment to unlock the report.
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* [Search.illicit.services](https://search.illicit.services/) – Search engine for PII and leaked credentials from data brokers and breaches. Finds data leaks associated with usernames, if there are any.
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* [Social Searcher](https://www.social-searcher.com/) – Searches for username mentions on social networks.
* [Maigret](https://github.com/soxoj/maigret) – A pretty advanced username checker which collects a dossier on a person by username from thousands of sites. Creates HTML reports and has a telegram bot.
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* [Blackbird](https://github.com/p1ngul1n0/blackbird) – Another OSINT tool to search for accounts by username in social networks.
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* [Social Analyzer](https://github.com/qeeqbox/social-analyzer) – A tool for analysing and finding a person's profile in 1000 social media \ websites with a vast number of features. Can be accessed in CLI and has a Web App.
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* [Sherlock](https://github.com/sherlock-project/sherlock) – Hunts down social media accounts by username across social networks.
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* [Enola](https://github.com/TheYahya/enola) – A modern CLI tool written with Golang. Based on Sherlock, but returns more false positives.