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UK donates 225 million stolen passwords to hack-checking site

UK law enforcement has donated a tranche of 225 million unique passwords to a cyber-security project helping to protect users from hacking.

The National Crime Agency (NCA) recovered the database from cyber-criminals who had collected real users' email addresses and passwords.

That list has been added to free online service Have I Been Pwned (HIBP).

It lets anyone search through hundreds of millions of passwords to see if theirs is in the hands of criminals.

Troy Hunt, the security researcher who runs the site, announced on Friday that it now has a "pipeline" function for law enforcement to add passwords they have recovered to the service.

"The premise is simple," he wrote in a blog post.

"During the course of their investigations, they come across a lot of compromised passwords, and if they were able to continuously feed those into HIBP, all the other services out there using Pwned passwords would be able to better protect their customers from account takeover attacks."

An account takeover attack is when a hacker gains the username and password for an online service and is able to take control of it.

Source: BBC News

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Pwned Passwords are 613,584,246 real world passwords previously exposed in data breaches. This exposure makes them unsuitable for ongoing use as they're at much greater risk of being used to take over other accounts. They're searchable online below as well as being downloadable for use in other online systems. 

Check if your password has been pwned at https://haveibeenpwned.com/Passwords.

Use a FREE secure password manager to generate secure passwords to use online such as one available at https://bitwarden.com/pricing/.

Be more Cyber Aware and Learn more about Cyber Security at https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/cyberaware.