Password Breach Checker for India — Free HIBP Lookup
Check if your password leaked in any data breach. Uses HIBP k-anonymity — your password never leaves your browser in cleartext. Free, private, India-hosted UI.
Checking passwords reused across Indian banking apps, IRCTC, Aadhaar-linked portals and e-commerce accounts against 12+ billion leaked credentials.
Open the tool →Common Indian use cases
- Users who set the same password on IRCTC, Amazon India and their SBI net-banking (extremely common) can find out in seconds if any of those combos are already public.
- Startups running a password audit for employees before ISO 27001 or SOC 2 India-region certification.
- Parents checking if their teenager's Instagram or Discord password was in a recent gaming-site breach.
Why the India variant matters
HIBP is the industry standard, but its raw API is intimidating. PhishGuard wraps it in a simple 'paste your password, get a yes/no' interface — and the actual password is hashed and truncated in-browser before anything is sent, so it's genuinely private.
How the k-anonymity check works
You never send your password anywhere. Your browser SHA-1 hashes the password locally, sends only the first 5 characters of the hash to Have I Been Pwned's API, and HIBP returns every full hash in its database that starts with those 5 characters (usually a few hundred). Your browser then compares the rest of your hash locally. The API server never sees your password, your full hash, or even enough of the hash to reconstruct it. This is genuine privacy, not a promise.
What 'breached' actually means
If HIBP returns a match with a count of, say, 42,000, it means your exact password appeared 42,000 times across public breach dumps (LinkedIn, Adobe, Canva, hundreds more). It does not mean your specific account is compromised — but it does mean this password is on every credential-stuffing list attackers try first. Any account still using it is a matter of time.
India-specific reuse risk
The pattern we see in Indian breach analyses: the same 6-8 character password reused across IRCTC, Flipkart, a college email, an old Yahoo, and a bank net-banking account. The oldest one leaks (usually IRCTC or a shopping site), attackers try it against banks, and by the time you notice, the money is gone. Rule of thumb after a breach hit: change the exposed password on every service where you used it, not just the one that leaked, and turn on 2FA wherever it's offered — banks, Gmail, WhatsApp, Instagram, Aadhaar (via mAadhaar TOTP).
Frequently asked questions
Do you store my password?
No. Your password is SHA-1 hashed in your browser and only the first 5 characters of the hash are sent to the breach API. We never receive the password itself or the full hash.
What should I do if my password is breached?
Change it on every service you used it on — not just the one that leaked. Enable 2FA (SMS, TOTP app, or hardware key) on banking, email and social accounts, since credential-stuffing attacks reuse leaked passwords across sites.
Is a passphrase safer than a random password?
A 4-word random passphrase (correct-horse-battery-staple style) can be as strong as a 12-character random string and much easier to remember. Length matters far more than symbols.