| CPC H04L 63/1416 (2013.01) [H04L 63/0838 (2013.01)] | 20 Claims |

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8. A method, comprising:
transmitting, by a user device to an infrastructure device, access information to enable authentication of the user device;
calculating, by the user device, a hash of private data, the hash of the private data to be utilized for comparison with a hash of breached data that is compromised due to a data breach, the private data being different from the access information;
verifying, by the user device based at least in part on communicating verification information with the infrastructure device, that the user device is authorized to have access to a plaintext version of the private data;
transmitting, by the user device to the infrastructure device, the hash of the private data; and
receiving, by the user device from the infrastructure device, a notification indicating a result of a comparison of the hash of the private data with the hash of the breached data.
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