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Your email and password were probably posted online (3 billion emails and passwords) in the mother of all data leaks [BGR] (bgr.com)
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Check if your email leaked https://cybernews.com/personal-data-leak-check/

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[–] Kroktann@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 years ago

Hm...

The tool hashes the email you entered and uses only this hash to perform a search in our database

Not quite what I expected. They might still hash it server side though, but with these kind of tools I'd expect them to do it client side. At least when I allow them to run js.