New Website Checks to See if Your Username/Password Among Those Stolen
Have you been pwned?
A new website allows Internet users to check if their usernames and passwords were exposed in some of the largest data breaches in recent years.
The site is called haveibeenpwned.com and was created by Australian software architect Troy Hunt. It allows users to check if their email addresses are present in user databases leaked from Adobe Systems this year, Yahoo in 2012, Sony and Stratfor in 2011 and Gawker in 2010.
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New website tricks you into keying in your username and password so they can store it.