PwnedList alerts you when you've been hacked, for a price

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http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/pwnedlist-alerts-you-when-youve-been-hacked-for-a-price/10943

By Emil Protalinski
Zero Day
ZDNet.com
March 19, 2012

PwnedList is a website launched nine months ago to help users figure out 
if their account credentials have been hacked. The service crawls public 
sites where hackers post stolen data and then indexes all the login 
credentials it finds. As such, if your company or a website you use was 
hacked, and PwnedList found it, it can tell you. If you want to check 
yourself, the service is free. If you want PwnedList to alert you when 
your account credentials have been stolen, however, you’ll have to pay.

Here’s how it works. When you visit PwnedList, you’ll be asked to type 
in your e-mail address or username. All that PwnedList does is check 
what you provided against its database of compromised credentials. At 
the time of writing, it has over 12 million entries in its database, 
each of which PwnedList also checks for whether a password was also 
published online. If it has, you can at the very least change your 
password.

PwnedList today announced a “security monitoring service” that charges 
users for an automatic e-mail alert if their account credentials have 
been posted online by hackers. The new service is available to both 
consumers and businesses. Here are the three features PwnedList is 
emphasizing:

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