# Troy Hunt: I've Just Launched "Pwned Passwords" V2 With Half a Billion Passwords for Download

<https://www.troyhunt.com/ive-just-launched-pwned-passwords-version-2/>

- Host: [troyhunt.com](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/troyhunt.com/)
- Saved: February 22, 2018 (2018-02-22T11:18:54Z)
- Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/0a2a00101c85/
- JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/0a2a00101c85.json

## What Jamie wrote

I use [Have I Been Pwned](https://haveibeenpwned.com/) and am impressed with it. I didn’t realize that the creator of that had done this other project as well, to create a database of bad passwords. Interesting to read about it and how he suggests using it for good.

## Facts

- Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/)

## Appears in

- [WT42: Weekly Thing #42 / Feb 24, 2018](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/42/), Security

## Mentions

- [haveibeenpwned.com](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/990b4ee133cc/) (haveibeenpwned.com, April 16, 2016)

## Mentioned by

- [AgileBits Blog | Finding Pwned Passwords With 1Password](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/f4f35e6037ed/) (blog.agilebits.com, February 24, 2018)

## Same host

- [Going dark: online privacy and anonymity for normal people](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/d634e2687ebc/) (troyhunt.com, May 20, 2016)
- [The "Have I been pwned" API rate limit has been brought forward - here's why](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/aeaa9caa5df8/) (troyhunt.com, September 5, 2016)
- [Troy Hunt: The Legitimisation of Have I Been Pwned](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/94233c45b7f0/) (troyhunt.com, March 27, 2018)
- [Troy Hunt: Serverless to the Max: Doing Big Things for Small Dollars with Cloudflare Workers and Azure Functions](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/e2a16f70d31d/) (troyhunt.com, September 8, 2018)
- [Troy Hunt: The 773 Million Record "Collection #1" Data Breach](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/9433422d224c/) (troyhunt.com, January 17, 2019)

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## Elsewhere

- Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.troyhunt.com/ive-just-launched-pwned-passwords-version-2/