Troy Hunt

AUGUST 28, 2018

I'm still pretty amazed at how much traction Pwned Passwords has gotten this year. A few months ago, I wrote about Pwned Passwords in Practice which demonstrates a whole heap of great use cases where they've been used in registration, password reset and login flows.

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

I think I've pretty much captured it all in the title of this post but as of about a day ago, Pwned Passwords now has full parity between the SHA-1 hashes that have been there since day 1 and NTLM hashes. In his spare time. As a community contribution.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 8, 2019

Almost 2 years ago to the day, I wrote about Passwords Evolved: Authentication Guidance for the Modern Era. Shortly after that blog post I launched Pwned Passwords with 306M passwords from previous breach corpuses. 3,768,890 passwords. 3,768,890 passwords.

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Troy Hunt

MAY 27, 2021

Both these announcements are being made at a time where Pwned Passwords is seeing unprecedented growth: Getting closer and closer to the 1B requests a month mark for @haveibeenpwned 's Pwned Passwords. Speaking of natural fits, Pwned Passwords is perfect for this model and that's why we're starting here.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 9, 2023

that was out of a total of more than 166M requests in the same period: Yep, we just hit "five nines" of cache hit ratio on Pwned Passwords being 99.999%. We were really happy with that as it was now only 5k requests per million hitting the origin. No biggy, unless. And we were happy with that!

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 19, 2020

Today, almost one year after the release of version 5 , I'm happy to release the 6th version of Pwned Passwords. The data set has increased from 555,278,657 known compromised passwords to a grand total of 572,611,621, up 17,332,964? No more making every password 'avid', post production industry, muwahahaha.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 19, 2021

In the last month, there were 1,260,000,000 occasions where a service somewhere checked a password against Have I Been Pwned's (HIBP's) Pwned Password API. It looks like this: There are all sorts of amazing Pwned Passwords use cases out there.

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