Password Breach चेकर

(Documentation in English)

What it does

Reusing a password that has already leaked is one of the most common ways accounts get taken over. This tool checks a password against Pwned Passwords — the corpus of hundreds of millions of real passwords from known data breaches maintained by Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) — and tells you how many times it has appeared in a breach.

It does this with k-anonymity: the password is SHA-1 hashed in your browser, and only the first 5 characters of the

hashhashA one-way function that maps data of any size to a fixed-length digest. Same input, same digest; any change, different digest; not reversible.

are sent to the API. The API replies with every leaked-

hashhashA one-way function that maps data of any size to a fixed-length digest. Same input, same digest; any change, different digest; not reversible.

suffix that shares that prefix (about 800 candidates), and your browser matches the remaining 35 characters locally. The API never sees enough information to reconstruct your password — even a hostile operator could not learn it.

How to use it

1. Type or paste a password into the field. Use the eye toggle to show or hide it.
2. Click Check password (or press Enter). The lookup takes a moment while the

   hashhashA one-way function that maps data of any size to a fixed-length digest. Same input, same digest; any change, different digest; not reversible.

   is computed and the range is fetched.
3. Read the verdict: a green box means the password has not been found in any known breach; a red box shows exactly how many breaches it appeared in.
4. Expand How k-anonymity protects your password to see the

   hashhashA one-way function that maps data of any size to a fixed-length digest. Same input, same digest; any change, different digest; not reversible.

   prefix that was sent and how many candidate hashes were checked locally.

If the lookup cannot reach the API, the tool says so explicitly — an unreachable network is never reported as “no breaches found”.

Examples

Checking the password password:

SHA-1          5BAA61E4C9B93F3F0682250B6CF8331B7EE68FD8
Sent to API    5BAA6        (the only 5 characters that leave your browser)
Checked        ~800 candidate suffixes returned for that prefix, matched locally
Result         This password appeared in 3.7M+ data breaches ✗ (the live count is shown)

Checking a long random password:

Input          Zx9#qL-vTtR2mW4n
Flow           hash locally → send the 5-char prefix → match the suffix against ~800 candidates
Result         This password has not been found in any known breaches ✓

Good to know

• Your password never leaves your browser. The SHA-1

  hashhashA one-way function that maps data of any size to a fixed-length digest. Same input, same digest; any change, different digest; not reversible.

  is computed locally with the Web Crypto API, and only 5 of its 40 hex characters are transmitted. That prefix identifies a bucket of ~800 hashes, not your password.
• “Not found” is not “strong”. The check only says the exact password is absent from known breach corpora. Tr0ub4dor&3-style guesses can be absent yet still weak — pair this with the Password Strength Analyser and a generated password.
• SHA-1 is fine here. The

  hashhashA one-way function that maps data of any size to a fixed-length digest. Same input, same digest; any change, different digest; not reversible.

  is used as a lookup key, not for authentication. A preimage attack on SHA-1 would not help an attacker who only ever receives 5 hex characters of it.
• Related tools: Password Strength Analyser, Password Generator, Passphrase Generator.