Have I Been Pwned goes open-source and teams up with the FBI on leaked passwords

Have I Been Pwned (HIBP), a website built and maintained by security researcher Troy Hunt, is one of the top destinations to find out if your email ID or password has been part of a data breach. Hunt, also Microsoft Regional Director for security, announced last night that he’s making the website open-sourced so others can contribute to the project and make it easier to find your compromised credentials. He had first announced his intention of making this project available to other services last August.  As a first step, Hunt and .NET foundation are making the pwned password module open-sourced. This…

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