Troy Hunt

JUNE 24, 2024

I've been harbouring some thoughts about the state of data breaches over recent months, and I feel they've finally manifested themselves into a cohesive enough story to write down. Data Breach Victims are Making it Worse I'm talking about class actions.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 18, 2024

So, let's focus on what we can prove, starting with the accuracy of the data. The linked article talks about the author verifying the data with various people he knows, as well as other well-known infosec identities verifying its accuracy. For my part, I've got 4.8M

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 10, 2019

Back in 2013, I was beginning to get the sense that data breaches were becoming a big thing. 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.

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Webroot

MAY 3, 2022

That’s why maintaining password integrity helps protect our online lives and reduces the risk of becoming a victim of identity theft or data loss. The average cost of a data breach in 2021 rose to over 4 million dollars , increasing 10% from 2020. What is password integrity? Think of the foundation of a building.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 24, 2024

Regulations galore Against this backdrop, there are myriad global data protection regulations. The EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is widely considered the de facto gold standard. Also, the GDPR recommends data anonymization to minimize the risk of PII breach and identity theft.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 3, 2021

Identity security is the greatest weakness in enterprise security. As any infosec manager will tell you, no matter how secure your infrastructure, anyone with the right credentials can walk through the front door. Identity and user authentication continue to be a concern for IT managers.

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