"Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) is a data breach "search engine" that allows anyone to submit their email address to see if any links to a data breach are publicly known. HIBP is a free service that can give you an overview of whether or not it is likely your online accounts have been "pwned," or compromised, in a data breach."
"You can also use the HIBP side service, Pwned Passwords, to see if a password you commonly use is linked to exposed datasets. You can't use the service to view stolen or leaked data. Instead, HIBP gives you an overview of compromised data. At the time of writing, 917 breaches have been added to the service, which now brings its count to 15.32 billion accounts."
"According to the Have I Been Pwned updates, the first set includes 183 million records. Data was uploaded to HIBP on Oct. 21 with the assistance of Synthient, a threat intelligence service that shared the data with Hunt. In total, 183 million unique email addresses, the websites they were used on, and the passwords they were associated with were included."
Have I Been Pwned added two new compromised-account datasets containing 183 million and 3.9 million accounts. HIBP enables anyone to submit an email address to learn whether it appears in known data breaches and provides a timeline and summary of stolen or dumped data. The service also offers Pwned Passwords to check if passwords appear in exposed datasets. HIBP does not allow viewing the leaked records themselves. The 183 million-record set was uploaded Oct. 21 with Synthient's assistance and contains unique email addresses, the websites they were used on, and associated passwords. The 3.9 million set added Oct. 27 relates to MyVidster.
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