We’re now midway through 2011 and it seems that not a day goes by without us hearing about a major corporation or website getting hacked. Whether it be Sony or the CIA, it seems that no organisation is fully protected against online hacker groups. Whilst you probably don’t have any information on the CIA’s website, no doubt you’ll have some information sitting on Facebook, Gawker Media, Playstation Network or the slew of other sites who have been hacked.
That’s where Should I Change My Password (SICMP) comes in. Built by an ex consultant and security analyst, Daniel Grzelak, SICMP checks your email address against a database of published password leaks and lets you know if your email address is among the 800,000 (as of June 24th 2011) accounts that have been published.
SICMP has been vetted by industry professionals and does not store your data on their site. Data is sent as a single database query so they’re not storing your email addresses either.
Incidentally when checking through my email accounts, one of mine did get flagged as hacked. By cross referencing the date of the apparent hack with the list of sources, it pointed me towards the Gawker network hack at the end of last year.
However not every email address and password has been published by the various hacker groups so you still may be compromised even if your email checks out here. Still, it’s a handy little tool for anyone whose worried that their data may have been compromised and so you should check regardless.
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