Troy Hunt

I always used to joke that when people used Have I Been Pwned (HIBP), we effectively said "Oh no - you've been pwned! Uh, good luck!" and left it at that. 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. Partnering with 1Password in 2018 helped, but the impact of data breaches goes well beyond the exposure of passwords, so a couple of months ago, I wrote ab...

I'm in Austria! Well, I was in Austria, I'm now somewhere over the Aussie desert as I try and end this trip on top of my "to-do" list. The Have I Been Pwned Alpine Grand Tour was a great success with loads of time spent with govs, public meetups and users of this little data breach project that kinda escalated. As I say in the vid, I'm posting a lot more pics publicly to my Facebook page, so if you want to see the highlights, head over there. That's it for this week, it's home for a day then I'l...

Firstly, apologies for the annoying clipping in the audio. I use a Rode VideoMic that's a shotgun style that plugs straight into the iPhone and it's usually pretty solid. It was also solid when I tested it again now, just recording a video into the phone, so I don't know if this was connection related or what, but I was in no position to troubleshoot once the stream had started, unfortunately. Moving on, it's been a ridiculously hectic week of bacb-to-back events then to top it off, we've bee d...

It's time to fly! It's two months to the day since we came back from the last European trip, again spending the time with some of the agencies and partners we've fostered at HIBP over the years. This time, it's the driving tour I talked about earlier last month, and we have absolutely jam-packed it! But hey, it's a part of the world I love driving in, it's summer over there (I know, it's a bit upside-down in that half of the world), and there are lots of cool people and places to see. Interestin...

The bot-fighting is a non-stop battle. In this week's video, I discuss how we're tweaking Cloudflare Turnstile and combining more attributes around how bot-like requests are, and... it almost worked. Just as I was preparing to write this intro, I found a small spike of anomalous traffic that, upon further investigation, should have been blocked. So we've pivoted again, adding yet more logic to try and give legit humans the best experience possible whilst making it painful for the bots. Fortunate...

We're two weeks in from the launch of the new HIBP, and I'm still recovering. Like literally still recovering from the cold I had last week and the consequent backlog. A major launch like this isn't just something you fire and forget; instead, it takes weeks of tweaks and refinements to iron out all the little creases, both known and unpredictable. None of them have been significant, fortunately, but the more I look at it, the more I see, and the more we refine. This week, we're diving headfirst...

Well, the last few weeks of insane hours finally caught up with me 🤒 Not badly, but I evidently burned enough midnight oil to leave the immune system somewhat degraded and just after recording this video, I really didn't feel like doing much at all. Some congestion and sniffles aside, it's really not that bad, but definitely evidence of a very intense period, which thankfully, is now behind us. So, this week, let's talk about that awesome new HIBP website 😊 References 1. Sponsored by:...

This has been a very long time coming, but finally, after a marathon effort, the brand new Have I Been Pwned website is now live! Feb last year is when I made the first commit to the public repo for the rebranded service, and we soft-launched the new brand in March of this year. Over the course of this time, we've completely rebuilt the website, changed the functionality of pretty much every web page, added a heap of new features, and today, we're even launching a merch store 😎 Let me talk...

Funny how excited people can get about something as simple as a sticker. They're always in hot demand and occupy an increasingly large portion of my luggage as we travel around. Charlotte reckoned it would be the same for other merch too, so, while I've been beavering away playing code monkey on the rebranded HIBP website, she built a merch store. Talking about it in this week's video obviously got a bunch of people excited, as a flurry of orders followed. As I said in the video, we put everythi...

Today, we welcome the 40th government onboarded to Have I Been Pwned's free gov service, Malaysia. The NC4 NACSA (National Cyber Coordination and Command Centre of the National Cyber Security Agency) in Malaysia now has full access to query all their government domains via API, and monitor them against future breaches. Malaysia is the first Asian nation to make use of this service, and we look forward to seeing many more from this corner of the world in the future....