GitHub to Warn Users on Compromised Passwords

guest · Aug 6, 2018

GitHub to Warn Users on Compromised Passwords
August 06, 2018
https://www.securityweek.com/github-warn-users-compromised-passwords

The new feature is the result of a partnership with Troy Hunt, the security researcher behind the popular HaveIBeenPwned.com project. The service allows users to check whether their accounts and passwords have appeared in any data breaches.

An internal tool GitHub has created is now taking advantage of a 517 million record dataset that Hunt made available for download through its service to “validate whether a user’s password has been found in any publicly available sets of breach data.”

The open-source software repository platform enabled the feature last week. The functionality, it says, it meant to alert all people who are using compromised passwords and prompt them to select a different one during login, registration, or when updating their password.
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Palancar · Aug 7, 2018

I guess there is a place for such an item. I simply swap passwords periodically using my manager. I note that GitHub has had U2F in play on my accounts since late 2015!

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