pwned
A command-line tool for checking Have I Been Pwned for account breaches and exposed passwords.
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About pwned
pwned queries the Have I Been Pwned service from a terminal. It can look up breaches for an account, search breaches and pastes, and check whether a password has appeared in a breach using the service’s secure range search.
Some commands, including account and paste searches, require a Have I Been Pwned API key. Other commands work without one.
Strengths
- Checks account breaches and exposed passwords from the terminal
- Supports JSON output for scripts and pipelines
Limitations
- Some searches require a Have I Been Pwned API key
- Requires Node.js
Details
- Pricing
- FreeFree and open source under the MIT license.
- License
- MIT
- Developer
- The pwned contributors
- Platforms
- Command line
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Best suited for
- People who want to check breach exposure from a terminal
- Categories
- CLI tools, Security tools
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Selected from the Homebrew formula
- Sources