PSA: NEW HUGE PASSWORD DUMP. Are You One Of The 501,636,842 Earth Dwellers That Have Been Pwn3d?! You Might Want To Find Out. READ ME.

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PSA: NEW HUGE PASSWORD DUMP. Are You One Of The 501,636,842 Earth Dwellers That Have Been Pwn3d?! You Might Want To Find Out. READ ME.
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I'm sure that some of you may know of the service <a href="https://haveibeenpwned.com/">"Have I Been Pwned?,"</a> which allows you to check whether or not you've been compromised via a data breach with a service that you use.

Well, that massive database just hit puberty and embraced a little growth spurt!  They're now clocking in 9 gigs worth of half of a billion passwords.  NASTY.

Go check to see if you're a victim, and if you are, CHANGE YOUR PASSWORD.  

Here's the full write up and the low down by <a href="https://www.troyhunt.com/">Troy Hunt</a>:  https://www.troyhunt.com/ive-just-launched-pwned-passwords-version-2/

SHA-1 Hashed lists can be downloaded here via torrent:

Dump v2 (ORDERED BY USE PREVALENCE) ~8.8GB: https://downloads.pwnedpasswords.com/passwords/pwned-passwords-2.0.txt.7z.torrent

SHA-1 hash of 7z file from torrent above: c267424e7d2bb5b10adff4d776fa14b0967bf0cc

Dump v2 (ORDERED BY HASH) ~9.0GB: https://downloads.pwnedpasswords.com/passwords/pwned-passwords-ordered-2.0.txt.7z.torrent

SHA-1 hash of 7z file from torrent above: 87437926c6293d034a259a2b86a2d077e7fd5a63


If you feel so inclined and appreciate Troy's work, he has a donation page located here: https://haveibeenpwned.com/Donate


I was just discussing this with a friend and thought I'd drop the news here for you guys!

Enjoy!  And stay safe out there in internet land!
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