http://www.zdnet.com/how-to-be-notified-that-your-password-has-been-stolen-7000024674/
By Larry Seltzer
Zero Day
ZDNet News
January 2, 2014
About a month ago I told you about have i been pwned?, a new site at which
you could learn if your email address was included in one of several large
data breaches.
The main improvement that needed to be added to the site, as its creator
Troy Hunt himself acknowledged, was a notification service to allow users
to enter an email address and be notified in the future if their address
appeared in any databases added to the service. Troy has now added the
notification service.
haveibeenpwned.com allows you to check whether an email address is in one
of several publicly-released databases of breached email addresses, with a
total of 154 million email addresses. Troy says the site has been wildly
popular and that, by far, the number one request for a notification
service.
When you click "Notify me if my address gets pwned in the future" you are
presented with the screen below. If you have searched on an email address
already, it is pre-populated in the field. You must then fill a CAPTCHA
(this is unfortunately necessary for several reasons) and click "notify me
of pwnage".
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