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donw on April 1, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Security Breach at US Universities

Right, but they have to look at that data to create those hashes, no?

DJBunnies on April 1, 2021 [–]

No, you submit your own hashes or partial hashes.

jffry on April 1, 2021 | [–]

I think donw was talking about the much more gray-area part of HIBP: obtaining the lists of leaked passwords, in order to hash each one and store the hashes.

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