Afraid that your password has been hacked? There’s a homepage for that!
Tracing back to the early 1960’s the word “hacker” was a positive term for a person with a mastery of computers. Today the word “hacker” has a more negative tone to it and is often associated with individuals who leak delicate documents or spread malware.
Troy Hunt, a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for Developer Security, has recently created the homepage Pwned Passwords. The purpose of this site is to let you check your password (at your own risk) and get a notification if it’s been leaked online.
You can also check future passwords to see if they’re safe. If they’re not, that means future hackers can use those leaked passwords and perform a “brute force-attack” to have a program guess someones password.
