Leaked passwords curiosity

Andrewgoh
2 min readMar 5, 2021

The web site https://haveibeenpwned.com/ provides a very useful service for you to test passwords. especially the stolen passwords.

However, it is simply unsafe to type in passwords on the web to check them.

Fortunately, https://haveibeenpwned.com/Passwords has provided archives for hashes of leaked passwords from known breaches. Those files are huge more than 12 GB (and more than double when uncompressed). A useful one is to get just the SHA-1 hash archive that is ordered by hash. Note that you’d need storage space to download that 12 GB and extracting it…

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