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I have a password that’s a pair of words in two languages with some number substitution that I use a lot on websites I don’t care about and it’s not in the dB. And I’m sure I’ve used it on sites that have been hacked, so I dunno.

I think many websites that got hacked leaked email addresses cc info etc, but most do not store passwords so your password wasn't leaked in plaintext.

Unless the site was also storing in plaintext they’d have to actually crack the password hash too, which for some passwords is very hard to do.

I just checked my very obscure 9 character password I use only for financial websites, and it appears 3 times.

insert the mathematical joke about the half-black sheep