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thewayne as usual for this)
There's this guy in Australia by the name of Troy Hunt who maintains a database. Whenever a dump of hacked user names and passwords appears, he snags a copy and sucks it into his system so that people can find out if their email address was compromised. Cool service.
He's expanded its functionality.
You now can enter a PASSWORD and it will tell you how many times it has appeared in password dumps!
[ trimmed some personal stuff ]
Here's the URL if you'd like to test some of your own passwords:
https://haveibeenpwned.com/Passwords
Feel free to repost this info, please test your important passwords and if they've been compromised, change them! And if you'd like to see if your email address has ever been compromised, just go up a level on that web site to the root.
And if you really want to have some fun, you can download the password list either through a direct download or a torrent, but it's 11 gig, so you're best off torrenting it.
thewayne as usual for this)There's this guy in Australia by the name of Troy Hunt who maintains a database. Whenever a dump of hacked user names and passwords appears, he snags a copy and sucks it into his system so that people can find out if their email address was compromised. Cool service.
He's expanded its functionality.
You now can enter a PASSWORD and it will tell you how many times it has appeared in password dumps!
[ trimmed some personal stuff ]
Here's the URL if you'd like to test some of your own passwords:
https://haveibeenpwned.com/Passwords
Feel free to repost this info, please test your important passwords and if they've been compromised, change them! And if you'd like to see if your email address has ever been compromised, just go up a level on that web site to the root.
And if you really want to have some fun, you can download the password list either through a direct download or a torrent, but it's 11 gig, so you're best off torrenting it.
