Troy Hunt

MARCH 29, 2018

In an era well before the birth of Have I Been Pwned (HIBP), I was doing a bunch of password analysis on data breaches and wouldn't you know it - people are terrible at creating passwords! Today, I'm announcing a partnership between HIBP and 1Password. Let me talk about why this partnership makes sense now.

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 25, 2018

Pretty much every day, I get a reminder from someone about how little people know about their exposure in data breaches. Often, it's after someone has searched Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) and found themselves pwned somewhere or other. ticketfly a heads up would have been nice.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 16, 2019

Most of them won't have a tech background or be familiar with the concept of credential stuffing so I'm going to write this post for the masses and link out to more detailed material for those who want to go deeper. This is the headline you're seeing as this is the volume of data that has now been loaded into Have I Been Pwned (HIBP).

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 3, 2019

I started doing these retrospectives 3 years ago in my first year of independence. I reckon they're a good thing for everyone to do if not in written form then at least mentally to look back on your achievements of the year. I love this post. I love the reaction it's had.

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Troy Hunt

MAY 29, 2018

Back in August, I pushed out a service as part of Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) to help organisations block bad passwords from their online things. I called it "Pwned Passwords" and released 320M of them from real-world data breaches via both a downloadable file and an online service. 1Password.

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