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You can also press the ↵ Enter key.

If your email address was not involved in a data breach, then you will see a green screen that says, “Good news - no pwnage found!” Just because your email address was not found does not necessarily mean that it was never involved in a data breach, it just means that it was not found in Have I Been Pwned. [1] X Research source If you were involved in a breach, then you should change the password for the sites that it says that you were breached in and change the password anywhere else you used it if your password was also leaked in the breach. Note that sensitive data breaches won’t appear on this list. Sensitive breaches are breaches that you probably don’t want anybody to know that you’re in if you are in them (like the Ashley Madison breach). If you want to see sensitive breaches, then you will have to subscribe for notifications and click on the link in the verification email that you receive. [2] X Research source

You will also be able to see if you have been involved in any sensitive data breaches here. Sensitive data breaches are data breaches from sites that you probably don’t want anybody else to know about. For privacy reasons, these breaches will only show up on this page once you verify your email, they will not appear on the public search page. [3] X Research source

You can also navigate to the home page, and then click on the “Passwords” tab at the top of the page.

If a password that you use has been pwned, then you should not use it anymore and immediately change it anywhere you do use it. Just because a password wasn’t found in the Pwned Passwords database does not mean that it is a good password.