Have I Been Pwned — which tells you if passwords have been breached — goes open supply

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge

Nowadays, we virtually take it as a provided that piss-poor safety will inevitably expose a few of your usernames and passwords to the world — that’s why 2FA is so necessary, and why you may want a password checkup instrument like those now constructed into each trendy browser (properly, Safari is coming quickly) so you may rapidly substitute those that have been stolen.

However almost all of these password checkup instruments owe one thing to Troy Hunt’s Have I Been Pwned, which was type of a novel concept when it first launched 7 years in the past — and Hunt is now open-sourcing his web site codebase so the concept can unfold even additional.

Whereas not all password checkup instruments truly use Hunt’s database (a just-announced LastPass function calls on one hosted by Enzoic as a substitute),…

Proceed studying…