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A Decade of Have I Been Pwned

Troy Hunt

” Anyone can type in an email address into the site to check if their personal data has been compromised in a security breach. Inevitably, "because data breaches", and it's nuts just how much exposure this project has had because of them. Or the UK's NCA to be feeding data in. You could call it.

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The Legitimisation of Have I Been Pwned

Troy Hunt

That harm extends all the way from those in data breaches feeling a sense of personal violation (that's certainly how I feel when I see my personal information exposed), all the way through to people literally killing themselves (there are many documented examples of this in the wake of the Ashley Madison breach).