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by adler0901 1901 days ago
I'm supposed to go to a random website and enter my phone number?
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It's not at all a random website. haveibeenpwned is renowned. Your phone number is not uploaded to the server, instead your browser asks for a whole range of (hashed) phone numbers and checks locally if yours was one of them.

The process is spelled out here: https://haveibeenpwned.com/Privacy

HIBP is indeed probably just fine, but I'm not sure how the phone number searching works. "There's no k-anonymity implementation for phone numbers at this point in time."

https://www.troyhunt.com/the-facebook-phone-numbers-are-now-...