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I guess someone somewhere maintains a database of all leaked username passwords and this feature compares a credential with this database? Is that how this work

by hongzi 7y ago

I guess someone somewhere maintains a database of all leaked username passwords and this feature compares a credential with this database? Is that how this works?

snug 7y ago
Possibly, internally at google, we had something similar that would look for passwords found in the wild that you're using for internal google logins
zemnmez 7y ago
it's probably Have I Been Pwned. Typically this constitutes a big pile of hashes