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Have I Been Pwned
Breach exposure lookup for emails and domains
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HIBP
Breach exposure lookup for emails and domains
Best for: Checking known breach, paste, password, domain, and supported stealer-log exposure in defensive account-security, credential-hygiene, and incident-response workflows.
Signal summary
Trust / disclosure
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Editorial line
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Review status
This profile is marked as editor-tested; workflow notes and caveats are shown where available.
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Commercial context
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Editorial verdict
Use case and fit
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Checking known breach, paste, password, domain, and supported stealer-log exposure in defensive account-security, credential-hygiene, and incident-response workflows.
Strong defensive awareness tool, but public wording should avoid shaming people or implying that HIBP is a complete breach database.
Best when an email, domain, password, or stealer-log question needs breach-exposure context without treating exposure as blame.
Operational snapshot
Workflow, access, and coverage
Email exposure lookup in known breach records
Email, Verified Domain
Breach Reference, Exposed Data Category, Exposure Notification
Exposure Triage, Monitoring
No match does not rule out exposure. Email results do not reveal passwords or prove a current compromise. Domain-wide and sensitive-breach access require the relevant ownership verification.
Check the scoped email, domain, or password workflow, note breach names and dates, separate subscription-gated stealer-log context from public results, prioritize password reset and MFA, then verify any active incident through internal or direct evidence.
English-first service; breach names, stealer-log terminology, and remediation language may need explanation for non-technical or multilingual audiences.
Limits
Strengths, caveats, and risk
Widely used breach-notification service with domain monitoring, paid authenticated APIs, and privacy-aware Pwned Passwords range search.
Email/domain APIs require keys and access tiers, stealer-log features are more restricted, and non-technical audiences can overread what a hit means.
Does not prove current compromise, account control, user fault, password reuse, or absence of breach exposure elsewhere; data only reflects what HIBP has loaded and exposes under each access model.
Breach and stealer-log hits can expose sensitive personal history and may be misread as proof of current compromise, negligence, or wrongdoing.
Use breach data for defense, notification, and risk reduction; avoid republishing personal exposure details, leaked passwords, or victim-level stealer-log context.
Treat HIBP as breach-exposure context, then verify active risk through password reset status, MFA, internal logs, account-owner contact, or incident-response evidence.
Maintenance
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Source checked: 2026-05-27
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