Check if your username or email has been hacked

A new website can check if your email address has been hacked (or in computer hacking jargon "pwned" or pawned) 

Here's the URL - https://haveibeenpwned.com/     A great service!

This site will check your email against a extensive list of data breaches including well the well-publicized Linked-In, Yahoo, Sony hacks.

It contains a whopping 2,603,061,788 breached accounts!  Don't despair if you are in here, general these breaches are old. So, change your password.

The site is run by a fellow MVPer Troy Hunt, Microsoft Regional Director and Most Valuable Professional awardee for Developer Security.

According to the site’s FAQ

Is anything logged when people search for an account?

Nothing is explicitly logged by the website. The only logging of any kind is via Google Analytics and NewRelic performance monitoring, and any diagnostic data implicitly collected if an exception occurs in the system.

Password Generator

Create a password that avoids repeated characters, excludes sequential patterns, and uses common symbols permitted by online‑banking security rules

Don't remember your passwords, use Kaspersky Password Manager which sync across all your devices.

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