Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 3, 2023

A decade ago to the day, I published a tweet launching what would surely become yet another pet project that scratched an itch, was kinda useful to a few people but other than that, would shortly fade away into the same obscurity as all the other ones I'd launched over the previous couple of decades: It's alive! "Have

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 10, 2019

Back in 2013, I was beginning to get the sense that data breaches were becoming a big thing. The prevalence of them seemed to be really ramping up as was the impact they were having on those of us that found ourselves in them, myself included. And so Have I Been Pwned was born. "Have I been pwned?"

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Troy Hunt

JULY 18, 2019

The very first feature I added to Have I Been Pwned after I launched it back in December 2013 was the public API. I highlighted 3 really important attributes at the time of launch: There is no authentication. One of those changed nearly 3 years ago now - I had to add a rate limit.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 2, 2020

This is going to be a lengthy blog post so let me use this opening paragraph as a summary of where Project Svalbard is at : Have I Been Pwned is no longer being sold and I will continue running it independently. I was tired, alone, emotional and if I'm honest, at an all-time low.

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