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Re:The 773M Record “Collection #1” Data Breach by umeshunni on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @11:13PM (#18928328)
I get this when I try 'password':

Oh no — pwned! This password has been seen 3,645,804 times before

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Re:The 773M Record “Collection #1” Data Breach by rjf72 on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @11:42PM (#18928433)
I assume he was sending in the SHA-1s. And yeah, it looks like he (Troy Hunt / site operator) disabled the direct search by SHA-1 now that he's enabled the k-anonymity API. Was able to edit and update my original post to reflect this.
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