Has Your E-Mail Address and Password been Stolen? Check It Out in 10 Seconds: Have I Been Pwned!

SITE NAME AND LINKS:

• Site Name: Have I Been Pwned (HIBP)

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• Official URL: https://haveibeenpwned.com/

• Origin / Service Language: Australia (Troy Hunt - Cyber Security Researcher) / English

• Privacy Policy and Security Information: https://haveibeenpwned.com/Privacy and https://haveibeenpwned.com/About

• When a food ordering site, a game forum, a design application or a shopping platform that you subscribed to years ago is subjected to a cyber attack, your e-mail address and password there may be listed on hacker lists on the internet. If you use the same password in your main e-mail or social media accounts, it is easy for your account to be stolen suddenly one morning. So how can you find out which data breaches in the world your e-mail address has been involved in so far? There is only one address that is accepted as a reference by government institutions and cyber security experts worldwide: Have I Been Pwned.

  You just type your e-mail address into this free service founded by famous security researcher Troy Hunt (you definitely do not write your password!) and the system scans billions of leaked records within seconds to see if your address is mentioned. If your address is involved in a leak, it reports one by one on which date, from which site (e.g. Canva, LinkedIn, Adobe, etc.) and which of your data (only e-mail or password and phone number) were leaked.

• STEP BY STEP USE:

  1. Only the official address https://haveibeenpwned.com/.

  2. The your e-mail address and "pwned?" button (Attention: Never write your password in this box, only your e-mail address).

  3. If the screen Green turns color and "Good news — no pwnage found!", your email address is not involved in any known large data leaks.

  4. If the screen Red turns color and "Oh no — pwned!" warning appears, scroll down the page a little to find out in which years your email was leaked in which sites' data breach and "Compromised data" line whether your password has also been leaked.

  5. Immediately change your passwords on the sites you see in the list (and on all your other accounts where you use the same password), turn on two-step verification (2FA) and click "Notify me" tab, you will be activated to receive free alerts in case of a new leak in the future.

• REQUIREMENTS AND LIMITS: There is no membership requirement, individual e-mail inquiries are free and unlimited. The phone number calling feature, which was briefly supported in previous years, has been removed from the public web interface due to privacy policies; Currently, inquiries are made via e-mail address. The interface language is English.

• PRIVACY AND SECURITY: According to the official privacy policy, the email addresses you type in the search box are not saved or shared with third parties. "Passwords" tab k-Anonymity is used (in collaboration with Cloudflare); However, as a general security rule, do not enter your actively used password into any web form that you are not familiar with, and only with your email address. Also address directly against fake/similar domain names haveibeenpwned.com.

• ADVANTAGES, DISADVANTAGES AND WHOM IT IS SUITABLE FOR:

  • Advantages: The world's most reliable and largest data breach database, free checking in seconds, transparent display of which data was leaked from which site, free e-mail notification for future breaches.

  • Disadvantages: Detects leak only; It does not change your password for you or automatically recover your account (the user must take the action).

  • Who is it suitable for: Having an e-mail address on the Internet, using social media, banking and e-commerce everyone.

• BRIEF CONCLUSION: It is a vital site that you should visit at least a few times a year to check the security of the email address to which your social media or YouTube channel is linked. Type in your oldest email address right now and check which sites have been subject to data leaks in the past!