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A Decade of Have I Been Pwned

Troy Hunt

And that's precisely what this 185th blog post tagging HIBP is - the noteworthy things of the years past, including a few things I've never discussed publicly before. Passwords This was never on the cards originally. So, in 2017, Pwned Passwords was born. You know why it's called "Have I Been Pwned"?

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Project Svalbard: The Future of Have I Been Pwned

Troy Hunt

Increasingly, I was writing about what I thought was a pretty fascinating segment of the infosec industry; password reuse across Gawker and Twitter resulting in a breach of the former sending Acai berry spam via the latter. And while I'm on Sony, the prevalence with which their users applied the same password to their Yahoo!