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Troy Hunt: Two billion email addresses were exposed, and we indexed them all in Have I Been Pwned

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  1. polle
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    Got a ping from their great service that one of my ancient credentials was found in a new bundle of leaked email/password combinations. That led me to their excellent blog post about the...

    Got a ping from their great service that one of my ancient credentials was found in a new bundle of leaked email/password combinations.

    That led me to their excellent blog post about the difficulties they face when ingesting these massive datasets.

    For the few that are unfamiliar with the service: You can check your emails here and your passwords here (but better yet browse there manually and don't trust links by strangers on the internet).

    I strongly recommend subscribing to their free alerting service. They will email you when one of your emails is found in a data breach.

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  2. tomf
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    this was a surprising notification from HIBP. my old domain that I haven't used for anything in nearly six years was the only one involved. I love the write ups on this stuff. I can't imagine...

    this was a surprising notification from HIBP. my old domain that I haven't used for anything in nearly six years was the only one involved.

    I love the write ups on this stuff. I can't imagine managing a service like this.

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