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Password Security Checks

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Shared by Garrett • March 05, 2025

Hi there,

We have recently deployed a change to to prevent our customers from choosing passwords that have been exposed in previous data breaches at other third parties across the Internet.

The well-known security organization Have I Been Pwned regularly trawls the dark web and catalogs public breaches of sensitive user data and passwords. The NIST and other security organizations recommend that users not select passwords that have been previously breached. This makes credential stuffing and brute force attacks more difficult and keeps accounts even more secure.

For more information on these password checks, please visit https://haveibeenpwned.com/Passwords