1 Pwned Passwords are hundreds of millions of real world passwords exposed in
2 data breaches. This exposure makes them unsuitable for ongoing use as they
3 are at much greater risk of being used to take over other accounts.
5 This script offers 2 methods to check whether a password has been exposed
6 in an uncovered breach:
8 1) Online check implemented in such a way that the password to be checked
9 does not need to be sent to the remote database server.
11 2) Local check against a copy of the pawned passwords database.
13 Since the local copy of the database requires nearly 20 GB of disk space
14 (and a download of more than 10 GB of compressed data) the access via the
15 online check should be preferred, if the compatible with operational and
16 security requirements.
18 WWW: https://haveibeenpwned.com/