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The Facebook Phone Numbers Are Now Searchable in Have I Been Pwned

Troy Hunt

There's been huge interest in this incident, and I've seen near-unprecedented traffic to Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) over the last couple of days, let me do my best to explain how I've approached the phone number search feature. The Facebook data changed all that. What's Changed?

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How Spoutible’s Leaky API Spurted out a Deluge of Personal Data

Troy Hunt

Just your classic case of putting someone else's username in the URL and getting back data about them, which at first glance I assumed was another scraping situation like we recently saw with Trello. ", Pretty standard stuff and I'd expect any of the major social platforms to do exactly the same thing.

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Gab Has Been Breached

Troy Hunt

I've investigated hundreds of data breaches over the years (there are 514 of them in Have I Been Pwned as I write this), and for the most part, the situation with Gab is just another day on the internet. A couple of days ago, I posted a thread about their alleged breach. Gab's approach.

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