FBI partners with 'Have I Been Pwned' on breached password database
Have I Been Pwned (HIBP), a website that allows users to check if their email addresses and passwords have been compromised, is collaborating with the FBI on feeding masses of data on compromised credentials into the wider HIBP catalogue.
The US law enforcement agency approached HIBP, according to its founder Troy Hunt, to discuss what it might look like to build channels to provide the FBIs intelligence on compromised passwords.
This would vastly expand the database, and surface more compromised credentials with the Pwned Passwords search tool, giving more users information on whether they need to change their credentials. "Their goal here is perfectly aligned with mine and, I dare say, with the goals of most people reading this: to protect people from account takeovers by proactively warning them when their password has been compromised," Hunt said in his blog.
