This secure website lets you know if you need to change your login details because they've been compromised by a hack

In an age where huge companies are being subjected to cyber threats, a secure website called Have I Been Pwned lets you know if you need to change your password if you think you’ve been compromised by a hack.

Over the years of tippity-tapping on our keyboards, we’ve likely put our email addresses into some weird and wonderful websites.

Whether it be old social media platforms, one-off online shops, or online quizzes to reveal the results of Which Friends Character Are You? We’ve all been there.

But one website now checks whether your email address has been involved in any of the dodgy data breaches, and whether you need to update passwords – or, for a better choice of words, it’ll check if you’ve been pwned.

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Have I Been Pwned has your back if you’ve been compromised

There’s a website for everything in the technological era that we are now navigating.

Need to plan a road trip? There’s a site for the most entertaining roads.

Have you got Traitors-fever and fancy yourself as a detective? There’s a spooky HTML to track every photo of a person ever uploaded online, serving as the biggest Catfish deterrent of all time.

Now, there’s a site that tracks all data breaches and can tell you if you’ve been compromised by a hack.

The irony, though, is that you need to enter your email address.

Still, it’s a quick response, and it won’t be sending silly marketing messages to your inbox.

Instead, Have I Been Pwned simply tells you if your email has been involved in a data breach, notifying you to change your login details.

For example, the email address we tested was involved in a breach from game developer Zynga in 2019 and social media app Dubsmash in 2018, both of which saw hackers access passwords, usernames, and phone numbers.

The savvy background check will even notify you if you’ve recently been compromised by a hack, if you sign up, which will allow you to quickly change your password and surf the web safely again.

The internet keeps using wild ways to prevent being hacked

In this data-driven era, largely driven by the huge AI movement, it’s paramount to stay safe online.

But that doesn’t mean simply jotting down all of those ‘Strong Password’ recommendations into a journal.

Instead, companies are really ramping up their efforts to keep websites secure, such as Apple, as one security expert revealed the AirPlay system is an open door for unwanted visitors.

But more interestingly, Cloudflare has one of the world’s most intricate encrypted defense mechanisms of all time, and it’s just a wall of lava lamps.

While there’s a lot to be said for putting your trust into technology, there’s still value in the old password journal, though, such as this Bitcoin guru found when he forgot his keychain and lost $830 million in one brain-haunting blunder.

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