Is powerbi.com legit or a scam?
Official Microsoft Power BI sign-in domain, 16+ years old, clean security scan, legitimate business registration.
Analysis Summary
No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
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MT Intelligence
powerbi.com is registered to Microsoft and has been active since February 2010 — over 16 years of continuous operation. Our antivirus network shows zero detections across 92 engines, the hosting IP has zero abuse reports, and SSL is valid. The domain is listed in the global top-100k traffic index, reflecting its status as a major enterprise service. Web research confirms this is the official Microsoft Power BI platform used for sign-in and dashboard access. While scammers have been documented abusing the legitimate Power BI service by sending phishing notifications through no-reply-powerbi@microsoft.com, those attacks target the service's functionality, not the domain itself. Independent review sites rate the platform highly (4.6/5 on Software Advice) for data visualization and Microsoft integration. No complaints or scam reports target powerbi.com directly.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for powerbi.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- powerbi.com registered on 2010-02-16 (over 16 years old), currently set to expire in 2027, with Microsoft-standard registrar locks.
- Official Microsoft Power BI product; app.powerbi.com and powerbi.com are used for sign-in, dashboards, and service (confirmed via microsoft.com and Wikipedia).
- Scammers abuse the legitimate Power BI service (no-reply-powerbi@microsoft.com) to send phishing notifications by subscribing victim emails to fake reports.
- No direct scam reports or complaints about powerbi.com itself being malicious; all references are to abuse of the legitimate Microsoft platform.
- High user ratings (4.6/5 on Software Advice) for functionality, integration with Microsoft tools, and data visualization capabilities.
- Community discussions on Reddit (r/PowerBI) and Microsoft forums focus on technical usage, not security warnings about the domain.
- Scamadviser rates app.powerbi.com as legitimate with average to good trust score.
- Cofenseopen
"A phishing scheme that uses SharePoint links to lead unsuspecting employees to what looks like a legitimate Power BI report."
- Ars Technicaopen
"Scammers have abused Microsoft Power BI functionality... emails originate from no-reply-powerbi@microsoft.com"
- Proofpoint (via X)open
"scammers are abusing a #PowerBI function that allows external email addresses to be added as subscribers"
Registered to Microsoft; domain created 2010-02-16, expires 2027-02-16, status clientDeleteProhibited, clientTransferProhibited
Web research found three reports of scammers abusing the legitimate Power BI service (via no-reply-powerbi@microsoft.com) to send phishing notifications by subscribing victim emails to fake reports. These attacks exploit the service's functionality, not the domain itself. Two positive reviews confirm the platform's legitimacy: Software Advice rates it 4.6/5 for data visualization and Microsoft integration; independent review aggregators rate app.powerbi.com as legitimate. No direct complaints or scam reports target powerbi.com itself.
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Contact Verification
We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.
- No contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://powerbi.com/
- 2301https://powerbi.com/
- 3200https://app.powerbi.com/cross-domain
Server Reputation
Still, stay alert
No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.
- Double-check the exact URL in your address bar
Confirm you are actually on powerbi.com and not a lookalike like p-owerbi.com.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
Password managers only auto-fill on the exact domain they were saved for — they refuse to fill lookalike domains, which is the single best phishing defence.
- OpenDiscuss this site on the forum
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Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- Our automated security review found no threat indicators on powerbi.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- powerbi.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 94/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. powerbi.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Microsoft Corporation · Microsoft TLS G2 RSA CA OCSP 16, expiring in 157 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- powerbi.com is 16.3 years old, registered on 2/16/2010 through Nom-iq Ltd. dba COM LAUDE. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report powerbi.com as clean.
- No. powerbi.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- powerbi.com resolves to an IP operated by Microsoft Corporation in US (usage type: Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
- Yes. powerbi.com sits in the global top-100k on Cloudflare Radar, which means it has substantial real-world traffic. That does not automatically make it safe, but established brands almost always rank here and throwaway scam domains almost never do.
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