In brief The creator of the Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) website, which alerts you if it turns out your credentials have been swiped and leaked from an account database, has open sourced the project's internals.
Troy Hunt set up HIBP in 2013, and the dot-com is now said to be getting a billion requests a month. Last year, the man Down Under announced plans to make key portions of the system open source for others to pick up, use, and improve. Now the Pwned Passwords code base is available from GitHub under a BSD three-clause license.
Hunt also said the FBI has offered to feed known compromised passwords into HIBP.
"Their goal here is perfectly aligned with mine and, I ..
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