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jfruh
2 years agoNew Contributor
Searching for a string within a password
Hi there -- my credit card company sends me "dark web" alerts when some credentials of mine are discovered on dark web sites. They will show you the username used along with a short subset (3-4 chara...
jfruh
2 years agoNew Contributor
Hi Dave! The passwords are sent with only the last three characters displayed, so like *****ord.
I've gone in and done some searching in 1password for three-character end-of-password strings that I know actually are in there and no they are correctly coming up in search. I think I may have been doing it wrong previously -- it seems that if there's a letter combo only in a record's password, it doesn't autopopulate in the search drop-down but instead you have to click "Show all matching items" to see it. However, the letter combos I'm being sent by my credit card company are not coming up. Maybe I've already changed those passwords.
Watchtower is not showing me any compromised accounts. Not sure where my credit card company is pulling their data from.