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by closeparen 2051 days ago
Wonder if anyone has ever written password validation to attempt credential stuffing on a few popular websites and reject the password if it works.
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Pwned Passwords is a most common password (hashes) database compiled from years of breach data: http://haveibeenpwned.com/Passwords

Though the takeaway in the article is that you really only need to check Top X and Top X may be as low as 10 assuming other mitigations are in place.