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Meet the Man Who Finds Your Stolen Passwords
- jszymborski 12y agoShameless plug, a friend and I wrote passwordcanary.com at yhack, a webapp that crawls the web and notifies you when your email shows up in a email/password dump. Allows you some time to hopefully change your credentials. EDIT: Here's our demo that shows that response time is under a minute. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN_dEwnbG40&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN_dEwnbG40&feature=youtu.be
- iuguy 12y agoThere's a lot of controversy over Alex Holden and his 1.2 billion passwords claim[1][2][3]. The last link is more complete, but has a strong bias against him. [1] - http://www.jsonline.com/business/debate-swirls-around-security-expert-alexander-holden-b99325583z1-270240091.html http://www.jsonline.com/business/debate-swirls-around-securi... [2] - http://www.theverge.com/2014/8/6/5973729/the-problem-with-the-new-york-times-biggest-hack-ever http://www.theverge.com/2014/8/6/5973729/the-problem-with-th... [3] - http://www.youarenotpayingattention.com/2014/08/08/the-lie-behind-1-2-billion-stolen-passwords/ http://www.youarenotpayingattention.com/2014/08/08/the-lie-b...