Troy Hunt

MARCH 18, 2024

I linked to the story from the beginning of this blog post and got a handful of willing respondents for whom I sent their data and asked two simple questions: Does this data look accurate? What I can't do is send you your breached data, or an indication of what fields you had exposed.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Change Healthcare says it has notified approximately 100 million Americans that their personal, financial and healthcare records may have been stolen in a February 2024 ransomware attack that caused the largest ever known data breach of protected health information. which suffered a data breach in 2015 affecting 78.8

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 16, 2021

” T-Mobile declined to comment beyond what the company said in its blog post today. In 2015, a computer breach at big three credit bureau Experian exposed the Social Security numbers and other data on 15 million people who applied for financing from T-Mobile.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 2, 2025

That was fine when it was a pet project used by people who live in a similar world to me, but it didn't do a lot for the everyday folks just learning about the scary world of data breaches. If that happens as a result of the Qantas breach, at least I'm going to know about it early.

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Heimadal Security

MARCH 20, 2025

While artificial intelligence has transformed the ability to prevent, detect, […] The post The Social Security data breach compromised ‘billions’ of accounts. appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog. Here’s one easy, free way to protect yourself.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 18, 2022

This conclusion is derived from an analysis of data taken from our data breach detection tool, Surfshark Alert , which comprises publicly available breached data sets to inform our users of potential threats. Data associations to specific breach instances are only stipulated. Kaziukonis.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 30, 2025

On that note, stay tuned for the promised "Passkeys for Normal People" blog post, I hope to be talking about that in next week's video (travel schedule permitting). I've no doubt whatsoever this is a net-positive event that will do way more good than harm.

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Webroot

APRIL 22, 2025

If a company you do business with becomes part of a data breach, cybercriminals may have full access to your confidential information. Unfortunately, data breaches are on the rise and affecting more companies and consumers than ever. billion people received notices that their information was exposed in a data breach.

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Troy Hunt

APRIL 17, 2021

Good timing indeed, here why this is really bugging me in this week's video.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 26, 2025

Through an automated attack disguised as a notice from Hunts chosen newsletter provider Mailchimp, scammers stole roughly 16,000 records belonging to current and past subscribers of Hunts blog. The email claimed that Mailchimp was temporarily cutting service to Hunt because his blog had allegedly received a spam complaint. Hunt wrote.

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Troy Hunt

AUGUST 18, 2024

x billion people in the National Public Data breach, it is bad. It really is fascinating how much data can be collected and monetised in this fashion and as we've seen many times before, data breaches do often follow. This blog shows how. Whilst there definitely weren't 2.x

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Graham Cluley

MARCH 13, 2024

Streaming company Roku has revealed that over 15,000 customers' accounts were hacked using stolen login credentials from unrelated data breaches. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.

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Heimadal Security

JUNE 26, 2025

Top cybersecurity news between 20th and 26th June talks about Qilin ransomware’s new tricks, a DHS advisory on Iran-supported threat actors, a healthcare facilities’ data breach impact, and a new record for DDoS attacks.

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Troy Hunt

MAY 6, 2022

It's back to business as usual with more data breaches, more poor handling of them and more IoT pain. I think on all those fronts there's a part of me that just likes the challenge and the opportunity to fix a broken thing.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 7, 2025

“Also, for your security, we are able to subscribe you to Coinbase Bytes, which will basically give you updates to your email about data breaches and updates to your Coinbase account,” the script reads. The image that Lookout used in its blog post for Crypto Chameleon can be seen in the lower right hooded figure.

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Graham Cluley

MAY 27, 2025

Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Lovers of Adidas clothes would be wise to be on their guard against phishing attacks, after the German sportswear giant revealed that a cyber attack had exposed the personal information of customers.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Gary Perkins, Chief Information Security Officer, CISO Global While the scale of this data breach is alarming – with 277 gigabytes of data reportedly stolen – it’s important not to panic. The post Identity Under Siege: Responding to the National Public Data Breach appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Troy Hunt

MAY 14, 2021

: I’m Back at a *REAL* Conference; Dealing with RSI; Shellies and MQTT; My IoT Aircon Hack; Drowning in Data Breaches. What you see on the HIBP timeline is only a tiny slice of the data breaches I'm presently dealing with (I still need to find a way to make this more sustainable) Sponsored by: SecurityFWD.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 11, 2024

The British and Canadian privacy authorities have announced they will undertake a joint investigation into the data breach at global genetic testing company 23andMe that was discovered in October 2023.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 24, 2024

Things like speaking at events, writing blog posts, and, of course, running Have I Been Pwned. It takes people like you reading this now to turn up to my talks, consume the posts I write and use HIBP to do useful things after data breaches happen to make me successful at what I do.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

I've had this blog post in draft for quite some time now, adding little bits to it as the opportunity presented itself. Ricky Gervais does an amazing job of explaining what I'm about to delve into so do yourself a favour and spend a minute watching this first: And therein lies the inspiration for the title of this blog.

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Troy Hunt

OCTOBER 14, 2023

here's a blog post about how stupid class actions like this are! Protect your identity now.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 20, 2020

Nearly 7 years ago now, I started a little pet project to index data breaches and make them searchable. I called it "Have I Been Pwned" and I loaded in 154M breached records which to my mind, was rather sizeable. Time went by, the breaches continued and the numbers rose. It's been a fun little project ??

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

I've been investing a heap of time into Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) lately, ranging from all the usual stuff (namely trawling through masses of data breaches) to all new stuff, in particular expanding and enhancing the public API. Or: How do I remove my data from data breaches?

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Security Boulevard

MAY 6, 2025

The post What is DLP & Why Its Not Enough to Stop Data Breaches Alone appeared first on Votiro. The post What is DLP & Why Its Not Enough to Stop Data Breaches Alone appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The machine had full disk encryption and it's not known whether the thief was ever actually able to access the data. Is this a data breach? the Red Cross wasn't hacked either and that was clearly a data breach. No security protocols were breached. It's not clear if the car was locked or not.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2024

According to the breach tracking service Constella Intelligence , the passwords included in the source code archive are identical to credentials exposed in previous data breaches that involved email accounts belonging to NPD’s founder, an actor and retired sheriff’s deputy from Florida named Salvatore “Sal” Verini.

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Adam Shostack

JANUARY 2, 2025

Google has released information on their Secure by Design commitment, including a blog and white paper. Learned about Data Breach ; it turns out theres two games with the same name! Were launching a course, Scaling Threat Modeling , and theres a survey at the end of that blog announcement.

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Troy Hunt

MAY 13, 2023

This is the story I mentioned about the bloke in Melbourne copping it from the public for craning his McLaren into his apartment (its' "guitar lessons" all over again!)

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

But I digress; this week's update consists of some brief discussion around data breaches and yesterday's blog post on how I like to meet, followed by a lot of audience engagement on the topic of IoT. I really enjoyed that and it went on a lot longer than planned, I hope you get something out of it too.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 27, 2025

Explore major data breaches and phishing attacks, their impact, and key lessons. The post Famous Data Breaches & Phishing Attacks: What We Can Learn appeared first on Security Boulevard. Learn how companies fell victim and how to protect against such threats.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

Attackers can also trigger flaws to extract network details to infiltrate connected systems, increasing the risk of data breaches and ransomware attacks. “Read the GreyNoise Labs blog for technical analysis and deeper insight into how Sift helped discover these zero-day vulnerabilities.”

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

Despite advances in security technology, cybersecurity attacks and data breaches are increasingly common as attackers keep discovering new vulnerabilities and infiltration methods. Organizations now understand that a cyberattack or data breach is often inevitable—it’s typically a question of when, not if.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 15, 2025

Testing is vital for identifying errors such as incorrect formats, invalid responses, or other flaws that may not be caught manually and vulnerabilities that could lead to unauthorized access, data breaches, and other exploitation.

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Graham Cluley

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog. And boy do we need some good news - amid reports that 389 US-based healthcare institutions were hit by ransomware last year - more than one every single day.

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Graham Cluley

OCTOBER 28, 2024

has confirmed that it recently suffered a cybersecurity breach after a hacker attempted to sell what purported to be stolen data from the organisation on the dark web. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. One of the largest internet providers in France, Free S.A.S,

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 15, 2020

KrebsOnSecurity has learned the data was stolen in a lengthy data breach at more than 100 Dickey’s Barbeque Restaurant locations around the country. An ad on the popular carding site Joker’s Stash for “BlazingSun,” which fraud experts have traced back to a card breach at Dickey’s BBQ. .

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