![]() ![]() You can check your passwords this way either by manually entering it in a webpage, or via a lovely little API. Hunt employs something called k-anonymity to make the password search safer. ![]() While I’m reasonably OK entering my email address into the HaveIBeenPwned website, I was a bit more skeptical about entering any of my passwords. ![]() Hunt’s total list of passwords now includes more than half a billion unique passwords. Wow! Hunt cleaned and loaded the data into his service called HaveIBeenPwned, which allows (non-technical) users to enter either their email or password(s) to see if their data was included in the breach (or earlier breaches that he’s cataloged). Troy Hunt writes that it includes 772,904,991 unique email addresses and 21,222,975 unique passwords. Midway through January, 2019, news broke of a large cache of emails and passwords, dubbed “Collection #1”, surfacing on the internet. ![]()
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