Has your email or password ever been hacked

Data breaches are very common these days. Even for big companies like facebook and yahoo , there have been data breached recently. Their databases are exposed to the public because their usernames and passwords are hacked.

The hackers compile the list of hacked usernames and passwords and try to login to different services. You can think of data from a databases or massive excel files which contains all emails and passwords that have been leaked through our history. There is a website called https://haveibeenpwned.com/Passwords, where you can check if your password and email addresses has been hacked. When I checked my password, it showed this:

Oh no — pwned!
This password has been seen 116 times before
This password has previously appeared in a data breach and should never be used. If you've ever used it anywhere before, change it!

For software developers, you can develop your own code for checking password with this api.
url = ‘https://api.pwnedpasswords.com/range/’+ ‘password123’
Get the response and check if your password is valid.

Also, we can purchase some trusted secured password managers like Bitwarden, NordPass, Dashlane, 1Password and Keeper which can be trusted.

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