June 02, 2021

“Have I Been Pwned” breach site partners with… the FBI!

If your password gets stolen as part of a data breach, you'll probably be told. But what if your password gets pwned some other way?

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August 20, 2019

Chrome users ignoring warnings to change breached passwords

If you were told that the password you had just entered was known to have been compromised in a data breach, what would you do?

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August 15, 2019

Hacking forum spills rival’s 321,000 member database

When users of hacking forums turn on each other, expect things to get messy quickly.

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July 19, 2019

Firefox to pile on more native privacy features

Mozilla is integrating its Lockwise password manager directly into the browser and expanding its support for the Have I Been Pwned website.

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February 07, 2019

Chrome extension warns users their login credentials have been breached

Google's released a Chrome extension, Password Checkup, that's designed to warn users when they enter a username and password the company has detected in a data breach.

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February 01, 2019

Credential dump contains another 2.2 billion pwned accounts

How many user credentials have fallen into the hands of criminals during a decade of data breaches? Billions, according to two recent discoveries.

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January 18, 2019

Vast data-berg washes up 1.16 billion pwned records

A cybercrook is offering a giant stash of stolen emails and passwords, dubbed Collection #1 - allegedly the first of several such dumps

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November 19, 2018

Has that website been pwned? Firefox Monitor will tell you

Firefox Monitor, a breach notification website launched by Mozilla in September, can now deliver alerts from inside the Firefox browser.

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September 27, 2018

Firefox Monitor starts tracking breached email addresses

Mozilla has formally launched Firefox Monitor, a privacy-engineered website that hooks up to Troy Hunt’s Have I Been Pwned? (HIBP) breach notification database.

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