Holehe OSINT — Email to Registered Accounts

Open Source Intelligence Tool

Hello Hackers!!! Today, we’re going to explore the popular OSINT tool called Holehe, which is used for hunting down users using their email addresses and enhancing your online investigation skills.

Efficiently finding registered accounts from emails.

Holehe checks if an email is attached to an account on sites like twitter, instagram, imgur and more than 120 others.

Introduction to Holehe.

Holehe is an OSINT tool used for online investigations, focusing on finding details about people through their email addresses. It helps gather important data for tasks like social media profiling, email analysis, and digital forensics. The tool offers features like email validation, finding social media accounts, and enriching data, which are useful for OSINT professionals.

Installation

git clone https://github.com/megadose/holehe.git
cd holehe/
python3 setup.py install

How to use it.

options:

• h , — help show this help message and exit
• - only-used Displays only the sites used by the target email address.
• — no-color Don’t color terminal output
• — no-clear Do not clear the terminal to display the results
• -NP, — no-password-recovery
• Do not try password recovery on the websites
• -C, — csv Create a CSV with the results
• -T TIMEOUT, — timeout TIMEOUT Set max timeout value (default 10)

Example : holehe test@gmail.com

holehe — only-used Email

holehe — no-password-recovery —only-used test@gmail.com

Results as you can see this email is been used in this all sites.

holehe — no-password-recovery test@gmail.com

Understanding the output -
You can understand if the account exists on that website by seeing its colour,
Green color> Account exists by that mail
Purple color > Account doesn’t exists by that mail
Red color > Didnt checked due to rate limit

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