Since 2013, developer Troy Hunt has been offering an invaluable online security tool called Have I Been Pwned. Enter your email address, and the site will let you know if it’s been found in any known security breaches… giving you a pretty good idea of whether it’s time to change your password. Now Hunt says […]
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Time to change your passwords: Data breach exposes 773 million email address, 21 million passwords
11 Comments on Time to change your passwords: Data breach exposes 773 million email address, 21 million passwordsTroy Hunt, the security researcher behind the HaveIBeenPwned website has added a massive list of compromised email addresses and passwords to his database. The data set, called “Collection #1” has been circulating in some shady parts of the internet and includes 772.9 million email addresses and 21.2 million passwords — which have been dehashed (meaning […]
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306 million passwords you probably shouldn’t use for anything
Want to know if your password is secure? Then you should probably never ever enter it into a website that promises to let you know. But if you suspect that someone may have accessed a password you’re using, the first thing you should probably do is change it. And the second thing you might want […]