Troy Hunt

APRIL 6, 2021

There's been huge interest in this incident, and I've seen near-unprecedented traffic to Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) over the last couple of days, let me do my best to explain how I've approached the phone number search feature. The Facebook data changed all that. What's Changed?

Accountability 364

Accountability Risk 364

Malwarebytes

APRIL 6, 2021

Unless you keep your social media at a pole’s distance, you have probably heard that an absolutely enormous dataset—containing over 500 million phone numbers—has been made public. But now some miscreant has posted the entire dataset on a hacking forum, so every lowlife out there has access. When did this happen?

Scams 117

Scams Social Engineering Data breaches Media 117

Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Just your classic case of putting someone else's username in the URL and getting back data about them, which at first glance I assumed was another scraping situation like we recently saw with Trello. ", Pretty standard stuff and I'd expect any of the major social platforms to do exactly the same thing.

Passwords 363

Passwords Accountability Backups Data breaches 363

Troy Hunt

MARCH 3, 2021

I've investigated hundreds of data breaches over the years (there are 514 of them in Have I Been Pwned as I write this), and for the most part, the situation with Gab is just another day on the internet. A couple of days ago, I posted a thread about their alleged breach. Gab's approach.

Passwords 363

Passwords Data breaches InfoSec Risk 363