Fair enough.
It's a legit website from a legit security researcher, but yeah, you would have to trust it somehow....
Keep in mind that most people give away far more personal information on a daily basis than just a single email anyway.
Well, at least their privacy policy includes this assurance:
We do not collect or store your personal information when you conduct a search in the HIBP database. Searching for an email address or phone number only ever retrieves the data from storage then returns it in the response. The data from the search is not explicitly stored anywhere.
You still have to trust them, though...
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Good find, yeah they can only do so much.
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