UK donates 225 million stolen passwords to hack-checking site

UK law enforcement has donated a tranche of 225 million unique passwords to a cyber-security project helping to protect users from hacking. "During the course of their investigations, they come across a lot of compromised passwords, and if they were able to continuously feed those into HIBP, all the other services out there using Pwned passwords would be able to better protect their customers from account takeover attacks." "Before today's announcement, there were already 613 million passwords in the live Pwned Passwords service, so the NCA's corpus represents a significant increase in size," he wrote. "Working in collaboration with the NCA, I found 225,665,425 completely new passwords. Now every single one of those NCA passwords is searchable." Chris Lewis-Evans, from the NCA's National Cyber Crime Unit, said that the huge list of compromised passwords came from the largest set the NCA had ever recovered - more than two billion email and password pairs.

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