[Data Breach] Check if your passwords have been compromised

[maxreish]

This is it, Google make a way to secure our log in credentials and passwords to prevent data breaches.

There is a called, "Password check up". To access and check it, you can try it in passwords.google.com. It was available as an extension that Google can access.

I managed to be able to try it. Seems I have 11 websites that I have log in and can check up my passwords.

Find more here.

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[mk4]

Alternatively, you can also use https://haveibeenpwned.com/

They even have a notification service whereas you would be notified if one of the websites your certain email is registered on is hacked/compromised, so you can change your password on that website as soon as possible to prevent problems with your account.

[hatshepsut93]

This requires you to save your password in your Google account which sounds like a bad idea from both privacy and security standpoints. Google has proven many times that they can't be trusted with personal data, and you also create more surface for attackers who'd want to compromise your accounts - instead of just one device, all of your devices that are connected to Google could be used to steal your passwords.

Alternatively, you can also use https://haveibeenpwned.com/

They even have a notification service whereas you would be notified if one of the websites your certain email is registered on is hacked/compromised, so you can change your password on that website as soon as possible to prevent problems with your account.

Haveibeenpwned uses cryptography to guarantee users that they don't collect their submitted plaintext passwords - but we don't know how passwords.google.com works, and if they give us any guarantees, so it's better to avoid it.

[dragonvslinux]

This requires you to save your password in your Google account which sounds like a bad idea from both privacy and security standpoints. Google has proven many times that they can't be trusted with personal data, and you also create more surface for attackers who'd want to compromise your accounts - instead of just one device, all of your devices that are connected to Google could be used to steal your passwords.

They are offering a service to check whether they have leaked your passwords or not, you just have to give them your passwords for them to check.
Makes total sense, as long as they don't leak them yet again 

What you want to see at this link is something like this:

[NeuroticFish]

They are offering a service to check whether they have leaked your passwords or not, you just have to give them your passwords for them to check.

I don't see any reason to give anybody my passwords, no matter what they claim.
Imho the healthiest way over the internet is: trust no one.
However, it's a good way to check how good is their password manager implemented 

[dragonvslinux]

They are offering a service to check whether they have leaked your passwords or not, you just have to give them your passwords for them to check.

I don't see any reason to give anybody my passwords, no matter what they claim.
Imho the healthiest way over the internet is: trust no one.
However, it's a good way to check how good is their password manager implemented 

Do you mind me asking are you using chome? I'm wondering why google doesn't even recognize I'm using an chromium-based keyring to encrypt passwords 
Probably something Brave did so Google can't recognize jack shit. It's good to see their password manager works to keep themselves out though, that's useful!

[NeuroticFish]

Do you mind me asking are you using chome?

Yes, I'm using Chrome. Somehow I was too lazy to change to Brave, I still don't like Opera and I still find Firefox unconvincing in making me return to it.

[MichaelX]

I don't use Chrome.
I don't use Google except for a personal Gmail account that has no other purpose.

I wouldn't want to save any passwords with Google, what if they are the ones that get hacked?


My personal tip, use a brand new email for every new website you need to create an account with, if they require an email address. You can easily make one even using gmail and any old android phone.

For passwords, well, everyone has a wallet right? My passwords look like bitcoin addresses or private keys. Use a password manager or even some notepad on your desktop.

[dragonvslinux]

Do you mind me asking are you using chome?

Yes, I'm using Chrome. Somehow I was too lazy to change to Brave, I still don't like Opera and I still find Firefox unconvincing in making me return to it.

It's OK I found my answer: Google accounts integration ("GAIA") is disabled. That'd be why   Changing from Chrome to a Chromium-fork is more or less unnoticeable imo.  
Bare in mind that Chrome has 100+ vulnerabilities per year, Brave hasn't had one yet in 2019. Just saying  
Correction: Here

[wwzsocki]

I don't see any reason to give anybody my passwords, no matter what they claim...

I didn't know that such a possibility exists in Google Chrome and when I saw this post started to figure out how to set up a passphrase in google account to encrypt my passwords.

It took me a while but finally, I managed to do this and here is the full set up.



I think this could be useful for other members who will be interested in protecting their passwords with encryption in the Google Chrome browser.

[nakamura12]

I also didn't know there's encryption option within Google's password manager.

While it might help you protect your password again hacker, but i doubt your password is safe against Google itself.

I'm also thinking the same way. I never saved my passwords on google at all. It is because google have many problems that's why I don't save my passwords in google. Just like their playstore letting those scammers to add their scam apps in there play store which is not good crypto enthusiast. Even though it's encrypted, I still don't want to save my password.

[Bountyhonter]

My personal tip, use a brand new email for every new website you need to create an account with

If i have been using new emails for every site i signed up on i would be having hundreds of emails already and that's a very bad idea, i would even be having the issue of trying to remember which email i used for which site.

[GreatArkansas]

Alternatively, you can also use https://haveibeenpwned.com/

I am still curious on this website if this is really legit?
Well, I tried some of my email addresses to check if I really get pawned or one of my email addresses is included on some website breaches.
I want some advice or suggestion, if I entered my addresses and it says it is compromised or pawned, what should I do?
Should I abandon that email address or maybe I can only change the password of my email address?

Because I am worried that maybe that website is only collecting the email address of every user who entered their email addresses on their website.

[masulum]

Well, I tried some of my email addresses to check if I really get pawned or one of my email addresses is included on some website breaches.
I want some advice or suggestion, if I entered my addresses and it says it is compromised or pawned, what should I do?
Should I abandon that email address or maybe I can only change the password of my email address?

Because I am worried that maybe that website is only collecting the email address of every user who entered their email addresses on their website.

Abandon your email may be the best way for you. But, if you think that email very important to you, change your passwords is the only options. About collecting data, based on their privacy page, they are saying not store any email data from users who submitted on check form.

When you search for an email address
Searching for an email address only ever retrieves the address from storage then returns it in the response, the searched address is never explicitly stored anywhere.

But I think it's not guaranteed if something happen behind. DYOR

[Strongkored]

My personal tip, use a brand new email for every new website you need to create an account with, if they require an email address. You can easily make one even using gmail and any old android phone.

I can't imagine how many emails you need, especially if you are an active person in online world 
I feel I don''t need it all because when our passwords change, we are  the first to get notofications via email and if that happens the next step is to immediately change the password.
Account an exchange or an email easy to hack then it indicates that we are not enough to secure these accounts with additional security such as authy or anykind of seurity.

[MFahad]

I also didn't know there's encryption option within Google's password manager.

While it might help you protect your password again hacker, but i doubt your password is safe against Google itself.

I'm also thinking the same way. I never saved my passwords on google at all. It is because google have many problems that's why I don't save my passwords in google. Just like their playstore letting those scammers to add their scam apps in there play store which is not good crypto enthusiast. Even though it's encrypted, I still don't want to save my password.

You can use KeyPass (https://keepass.info/), a local application to store all your passwords if you do not trust the online password manager like this google password manager.

My personal tip, use a brand new email for every new website you need to create an account with, if they require an email address. You can easily make one even using gmail and any old android phone.

We cannot use separate email for every website we register. First it will be hassle to create hundreds of emails as every email require you to verify it with the phone number and managing them is not an easy task. I personally have 3 email ids and they are enough for me.

[Departure]

There is a special telegram bot that is built to check your e-mail and across the Internet for compromise.

 I recently checked and saw that my e-mail with the old password was already several times freely accessible

Thank God that there was not a main password.

[PrimeNumber7]

Alternatively, you can also use https://haveibeenpwned.com/

They even have a notification service whereas you would be notified if one of the websites your certain email is registered on is hacked/compromised, so you can change your password on that website as soon as possible to prevent problems with your account.

Haveibeenpwned uses cryptography to guarantee users that they don't collect their submitted plaintext passwords - but we don't know how passwords.google.com works, and if they give us any guarantees, so it's better to avoid it.

The last I checked, haveibeenpwned actually will only ask the end user to input the username/email and they will respond with any accounts associated with databases that have been compromised containing that email address or username.

[Baronets]

We cannot use separate email for every website we register. First it will be hassle to create hundreds of emails as every email require you to verify it with the phone number and managing them is not an easy task. I personally have 3 email ids and they are enough for me.

Host your own mail server, and group the email addresses. This has the added benefit of allowing you to see who is selling your addresses.

[hatshepsut93]

The last I checked, haveibeenpwned actually will only ask the end user to input the username/email and they will respond with any accounts associated with databases that have been compromised containing that email address or username.

https://haveibeenpwned.com/Passwords

This is a separate feature from their email watching service, it also notifies people if their password was leaked, but you only send them a small part (called suffix) at the start of the hash of your password, and they return all the hashes from their database that also start with the same suffix, and then the code on client's side looks if any of the hashes matches the original hash.

By the way, haveibeenpwned accepts Bitcoin donations, which is a good example of Bitcoin's adoption and real use.