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Have I Been Pwned

HIBP (Have I Been Pwned) is a data breach search engine. You may search with your email or password to see if your personal data has been published online.

Founded in 2013, HIBP has grown substantially and even has organizations such as the FBI providing them compromised data.

HIBP has an API and notification service for receiving a notice if your info has been posted.

Cloudflare partnered with HIBP to use K-anonymity for the password search. Doing so, your full password doesn't need to be sent to the server to check if it's been in a breach. The hashed passwords' prefix is sent rather, and the client does the rest of the work.
Person - "I've been getting security notice emails/other sus events"
Person's friend - "Check if you've been breached on Have I Been Pwned, good chance you're on there!"
by mak0001 September 8, 2021
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pwned by life

When one is truly dealt a bad hand by nature. Used to describe one who is so horribly hopeless and worse off than anyone else, they have truly been pwned by life.
"Man, Travis' dad just got diagnosed with cancer."
"Right after that black kid stole his bike, and fucked his girl?"
"Yeah dude."
"Oh man, pwned by life."
by DickDanger December 6, 2007
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pwnedsauce

Ownage in its utmost, derived from pwned and quite possibly sauce also. It cannot be implemented into a sentence, but is a stand-alone phrase, used to signify your domination.
lolz!! I killed you with a pist0l roflzz!1!!1one!!1 pwnedsauce!!
by Spektre October 19, 2004
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pwned

An intentionally mispelled term for "Owned". Originating as a result of the "P-key" being adjacent and aligned with the "O-key" on the QWERTY keybpard, it is a commpnly accepted term ampng gamers and shares the same definitipn as "Owned".
1. You just got pwned

2. To accredit the usage of "Pwned" to anything mpre particular than a commpn typo would be an unsubstantiated concept of it's origin.

3. Everyone else's definition of "Pwned" just gpt pwned
by gorytortoise August 26, 2006
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rofl pwned

What happens when someone gets hurt, ripped, or burnt so bad that everyone in the area must roll around on the ground laughing at what just happened.
Man 1: *Runs into small metal pole"
Man 2: "ROFL PWNED!"

Man 1: *Whips man 2 in the eye*
Man 3: "Don't worry, I'll get him"
Man 2: "No, I've got it covered"... *walks over to man 1 and gives him a sweeny*
Man 2: "ROFL PWNED
by Assassin Mr X December 17, 2007
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pwned

This term actually comes from a game created hundreds of years ago, even before computers were invented. This game was called, 'chess'. The object of the game was to put the other player in checkmate, meaning, he was unable to move his king anywhere that he would not be threatened by another piece. Also in this game, you have 8 pieces at the front of your army called 'pawns', these were the least useful of all pieces, but that is not to mean they were worthless. If you could defeat the other player by using your pawn to apply check, that was called, and is still called pawned.

Now, back in the early 80's, before warcraft, counterstrike or even the INTERNET, there were ways you could contact other PC's by using a modem. These were called BBS's and allowed you to connect to individual computers acting as severs where games would be so that people could play other people they did not know. Now, when I used to play these games as well as many other people 22+, they used to use and coined the phrase, 'pwned'. Which was slang for pawned. It eventually was taken from just chess and used in other text based games to taunt the loser of a match. It is now commonly wide spread across the world, although the children do not understand its true meaning.

Saying it came from anywhere else is stating you're a poser for the fact you have no knowledge of gaming history and like to think you do so you make things up. Thanks.
Joe pawned/pwned Goerge along with his queen and knight.
by GetALife September 8, 2008
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porn pwned

when your internet explorer page freezes/breaks down when you are on a porn website
person1: i got porn pwned yesterday, i desperatly switched it off at the mains just as my mum was coming upstairs
person2: lol u got lucky, i got caught (not quick enough)
by DJ SPYKERZ(SCOUSED OUT) November 16, 2009
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