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It's nowhere near advisable for anyone to submit their address to that box.

Notwithstanding the questionable reliability of this what is meant by "leaked"? a trove of phished credentials does not really qualify as a "leak".



I just tried it with my old Gmail account that I no longer use, and it displayed the first two letters of my password. The password was random letters and numbers, 16 characters, so not easily guessable. Seems legit to me :-)


"If you don't like to specify your full email address for any reason, you can replace up to 3 characters with asterisk sign (e.g., for myaccount@gmail.com enter myac*nt@gmail.com), thus we'll show you a count of matches for this pattern. We respect your privacy."




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