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Breach Disclosure Blow-by-Blow: Here's Why It's so Hard

Troy Hunt

APRIL 14, 2022

For many years now, I've lamented about how much of my time is spent attempting to disclose data breaches to impacted companies. It's by far the single most time-consuming activity in processing breaches for Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) and frankly, it's about the most thankless task I can imagine.

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The Difficulty of Disclosure, Surebet247 and the Streisand Effect

Troy Hunt

JANUARY 8, 2020

This is a blog post about disclosure, specifically the difficulty with doing it in a responsible fashion as the reporter whilst also ensuring the impacted organisation behaves responsibly themselves. It began with this email: I get these every single day. But that's not the point - the email was received and then.

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Breach Disclosure Blow-by-Blow: Here's Why It's so Hard

The Difficulty of Disclosure, Surebet247 and the Streisand Effect

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