An Australian IT security firm has promised to alert clients to their stolen private information being found on the internet almost as quickly as it is posted.

With the number of data breaches increasing, the company also says it will try to remove stolen data from public view using a number of different means.

Pure Hacking, the security firm behind the new service, believes it is the first in the world – certainly in Australia – to offer such a product.

It created the service, nicknamed Black Ops, after one of its financial services clients – not a big four bank – expressed concern about their confidential information being published on the internet and being used against them and their customers.

The technology behind the service searches not only the surface web for stolen data, such as account details, credit card details and sensitive documents, but also other parts not indexed by Google.