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Querying the Pwned Passwords API to Identify Breached Passwords

February 24, 2018 by scott
Pwned Passwords

Troy at haveibeenpwned.com has released an updated API for confidentially searching an enormous collection of breached login credentials, half a billion entries. Critically, the design of the API avoids transmitting any actual password value or even hashes.

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