Half a million stolen passwords and logins. Check that your data is included

CERT Polska experts obtained a collection of 468,000 stolen logins and passwords of Polish users. You can check whether your data is in it using the securedane.gov.pl website

– informed on Twitter, the Minister of Digitization. It is not known when the theft took place and from which services they come. Neither Cieszyński nor CERT provided this information.

How do I check if my data has been leaked?

At the end of May, a file with over six million lines with passwords, logins and website addresses was uploaded to the network. .pl and the government platform gov.pl” – . reacted quickly and created a tool that allows you to check if ours has not been leaked. How to do it?

1. We enter the portal
2. We select the “check data” button;
3. We log in to the website using the Trusted Profile;
4. We enter e-mail addresses or logins into the tool, which we use to sign in to various websites. In particular, you need to pay attention to the above services;
5. The system informs us whether the data is safe or leaked.

The “have i been pwned?” tool works on the same principle.

What to do if our data has been leaked?

In this case, the government recommends:

• Use an anti-virus program to check the security of your computer;
• Using secure , change the login passwords you have used so far;
• Important! If you used the same password to log in to different websites, change it also on other websites;
• Turn on additional security on websites that allow two-step verification (read more about this ;
• Pay particular attention to account login attempts: check email alerts;
• Check how to create secure passwords It is worth using password managers, external or built into the browser.