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# What does the "Exposure Risk" column mean in the Dashboard?

The Exposure Risk column appears in the All Sites data broker table and is available on Paid Plans. It reflects the visibility of your profile information at a given data broker, in other words, whether your data is currently exposed there.
# The three values you'll see
* **Search in Process**: Optery is still searching this data broker for your profile. Adding more detail on your Manage Profile page helps us search more thoroughly.
* **Personal Info Found Exposed**: Your profile was found at this data broker and is currently exposed.
* **Removed / Not Found**: Your profile is no longer visible at this data broker. This covers two different outcomes: either Optery found and successfully removed your profile, or we searched and never found a matching profile there to begin with. Both cases show the same value in this column.
# How this relates to Removal Status
Exposure Risk tells you the outcome of our scans, whether your data is currently visible. It's separate from Removal Status, which tracks the progress of Optery's opt-out requests. A data broker can show Removed / Not Found here while its removal request status sits in a different state elsewhere in your Dashboard. See [Why don't the "How Exposed Are You" and "Protection Progress & Status" numbers match?](https://help.optery.com/en/article/why-dont-the-how-exposed-are-you-and-protection-progress-status-numbers-match-1232gk0/) for how these different Dashboard elements relate to each other.