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Scan your data stores for unencrypted personal data (PII)

  • Last names
  • Email addresses
  • IP addresses
  • Street addresses (US)
  • Phone numbers (US)
  • Credit card numbers
  • Social security numbers
  • Dates of birth
  • Location data
  • OAuth tokens

Uses data sampling and naming, and works with compressed files

💥 Zero runtime dependencies and minimal database load

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Installation

Download the latest version.

Unzip and follow the instructions below for your data store.

On Mac, you can also use:

brew install ankane/brew/pdscan

Data Stores

Files

pdscan file://path/to/file.txt

You can also specify a directory.

pdscan file://path/to/directory

For absolute paths, use file:///.

MySQL & MariaDB

pdscan mysql://user:pass@host:3306/dbname

Postgres

pdscan postgres://user:pass@host:5432/dbname

If your connection doesn’t use SSL, append to the URI:

?sslmode=disable

For best sampling, enable the tsm_system_rows extension (ships with Postgres 9.5+).

CREATE EXTENSION tsm_system_rows;

SQLite

pdscan sqlite:/path/to/dbname.sqlite3

S3

pdscan s3://bucket/path/to/file.txt

Requires s3:GetObject permission

You can also specify a prefix by ending with a /.

pdscan s3://bucket/path/to/directory/

Requires s3:ListBucket and s3:GetObject permissions

Others

Feel free to submit a PR

Options

Show data found

pdscan --show-data

Show low confidence matches

pdscan --show-all

Change sample size

pdscan --sample-size 50000

Specify number of processes to use (defaults to 1)

pdscan --processes 4

Roadmap

  • Add more data stores (SQL Server, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Memcached, Redis)
  • Improve rules
  • Highlight matches
  • Add more output formats, like JSON and CSV

History

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Contributing

Everyone is encouraged to help improve this project. Here are a few ways you can help:

To get started with development and testing:

git clone https://github.com/ankane/pdscan.git
cd pdscan
dep ensure
make test

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