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I got a weird spam/ransom email claiming that I've been compromised by the leak of a password that I definitely recognize as one that I have used (it is an 8 character random string, so they didn't just guess correctly).

The actual ransom note is not that compelling -- "I have used your password, abc123 to hack your computer and now I have all your dirty photos which I will publish if you do not transfer US $819 into my bitcoin wallet immediately. I will also tell everyone about the piquant (you know what I mean) sites you have been visiting." -- but I'd like to double check that I'm not still using the password anywhere.

It has been a few years since I finally switched over to a password manager -- first KeePass, now KeePassXC -- and started using long, unique passwords and I'm reasonably confident this particular password is not still in use, but I'd like to be sure.

It looks like KeePass included a way to search for a password: Search KeePass for Password but I don't see anything comparable in KeePassXC.

I could export the whole password database to a csv but that seems excessive and potentially dangerous. Can I search my KeePassXC database for a particular password?

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    It's a common scam at the moment, try haveibeenpwned.com & see if you have a recognised leak. That may at least narrow it down.
    – Tetsujin
    Oct 26, 2018 at 18:50
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    You can open your KeePassXC database in KeePass and search for the password: it is the same database format. Otherwise, you can do as you say with exporting to CSV.
    – davidmneedham
    Oct 26, 2018 at 21:22
  • If you enable the option Hide toolbar (icons), it also hides the search input field. It seems there's no other way to start a search from the UI apart from within the input field (unlike every other action in the toolbar). This is from v2.4.3, Windows.
    – iono
    Sep 12, 2019 at 12:41

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In KeePassXC it was implemented with version 2.4 (currently in beta).

In the upcoming v2.4 you can search for passwords using: password:[search string]. You can use wildcards and regex as well.

Alternatively you can use KeePass in the meanwhile.

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