As a user of online services, I may be at risk of exposing my password through data breaches. I am not sure whether my personal information, especially my password, has already been disclosed in such a data breach. Therefore, I need a reliable and secure method to check if my password has already been compromised in such incidents. Additionally, I want to ensure that this check is performed in a way that protects my sensitive data and does not further reveal it. Given the frequency of data thefts, I need a simple and quickly applicable solution to secure my online presence.
I need to check if my password was exposed in a data breach.
The tool "Pwned Passwords" provides an effective solution to the problem. By entering your password into the tool, it checks whether it was involved in a data breach. The tool strictly adheres to security and data protection by anonymizing your password input using a so-called SHA-1 hash function. This keeps your actual password secret and protected. If your password has already appeared in a data breach, the tool will notify you. In this case, you should change your password immediately. With "Pwned Passwords", you thus receive a simple and fast way to check the security of your password and increase your online security.
How it works
- 1. Visit [https://haveibeenpwned.com/Passwords]
- 2. Type the password in question in the given field
- 3. Click on 'pwned?'
- 4. Results will be showcased if the password has been compromised in previous data breaches
- 5. If exposed, change the password immediately
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