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Microsoft Regional Director and MVP Troy Hunt has introduced a website that allows you to check whether your passwords have ever been compromised. A 5.3 GB 7-Zip file of the passwords represented as a SHA1 hash is also available for download.
...don't enter a password you currently use into any third-party service like this! I don't explicitly log them, and I'm a trustworthy guy, but yeah, don't. The point of the web-based service is so that people who have been guilty of using sloppy passwords have a means of independent verification that it's not one they should no longer be using. Mind you, someone could actually have an exceptionally good password, but if the website stored it in plain text then leaked it, that password has still been "burned."
...don't enter a password you currently use into any third-party service like this! I don't explicitly log them, and I'm a trustworthy guy, but yeah, don't. The point of the web-based service is so that people who have been guilty of using sloppy passwords have a means of independent verification that it's not one they should no longer be using. Mind you, someone could actually have an exceptionally good password, but if the website stored it in plain text then leaked it, that password has still been "burned."
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