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In other words: Yes. Your search forms are stored by haveibeenpwned for an undisclosed amount of time. Furthermore, Google Analytics has access to this data, and therefore it may be stored on GoogleAnalytics servers as well. As others have said Troy Hunt is very reputable.
The most recent "Collection #1" breach, with over 12,000 sources is evidence enough that Have I Been Pwned is not the only one aggregating this type of information. And the competition does not have your best interest at heart. Pwned Passwords as a lookup service uses k-anonymity to provide some safety. It works basically like this:
Every time I submit a spreadsheet of haveibeenpwned's finding, I usually get questioned, laughed at, the mocked by mispronunciations of "pwned". Does anyone recommend a similar service to haveibeenpwned, that will email you when breach data has been published and compile reports of that data relevant to your domain?
3: The two government bodies quoted have an interest in keeping the general public from changing their passwords often, they are spying on their own citizens and as a large body, they often move slow, so they likely cannot keep up with too much change. 4: The college submission was ignored as being ignorant of real security.
Have I been Pwned aims to make that kind of attack less useful by letting everyone know what is known to be in that list, so they can be avoided. The chance of someone else having used the same (good) password as you is vanishingly small.
As per the website, 1Password integrates with the popular site Have I Been Pwned to keep an eye on your logins for any potential security breaches or vulnerabilities. Entering your email address on this site will tell you which data breaches involve this email address, so that you can go back to the affected website and change your password.
haveibeenpwned tells me that, yes, my e-mail address was found in the breach. However it also advises that the structure is <service><username><password>. With over 200 passwords (mostly generated in a password manager), knowing that my e-mail address is among the breached accounts isn't enough to be helpful. My e-mail address has been seen in ...
8 big services (listed on the page) have been "hacked"*. The hacked results have been released on the internet. This site lets you search all that information. *: not all of them were really hacks. For example in the case of snapchat it was more like datamining or crawling.
maybe not EVERYTHING. but, if you have maybe 3 passwords across everything, 99% you wont get pwned again. just make sure they are lengthy. i forget who but they ran a test that showed password length is much more important than the actual characters. good luck!
Sometimes address or other information is also associated, but that’s less common. HaveIBeenPwned will tell you what was leaked. As for your first question, the first thing you should do is obviously change your password. Then, after that, change ALL your passwords, especially any that also use the password that was leaked.