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Welcoming the German Government to Have I Been Pwned

Back in 2018, we started making Have I Been Pwned domain searches freely available to national government cybersecurity agencies responsible for protecting their nations' online infrastructure. Today, we're very happy to welcome Germany as the 35th country to use this service, courtesy of their CERTBund department. This access now provides them with complete access to the exposure of their government domains in data breaches. With the unabated flood of data breaches, we're happy to provide this...

Welcoming the Polish Government to Have I Been Pwned

Continuing the rollout of Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) to national governments around the world, today I'm very happy to welcome Poland to the service! The Polish CSIRT GOV is now the 34th onboard the service and has free and open access to APIs allowing them to query their government domains. Seeing the ongoing uptake of governments using HIBP to do useful things in the wake of data breaches is enormously fulfilling and I look forward to welcoming many more national CSIRTs in the future....

Welcoming the Indonesian Government to Have I Been Pwned

Four years ago now, I started making domains belonging to various governments around the world freely searchable via a set of APIs in Have I Been Pwned [https://www.troyhunt.com/the-uk-and-australian-governments-are-now-monitoring-their-gov-domains-on-have-i-been-pwned/] . Today, I'm very happy to welcome the 33rd government, Indonesia! As of now, the Indonesian National CERT managed under the National Cyber and Crypto Agency has full access to this service to help protect government departments...

Welcoming the North Macedonian Government to Have I Been Pwned

In my ongoing bid to make more useful information on data breaches available to impacted national governments [https://www.troyhunt.com/the-uk-and-australian-governments-are-now-monitoring-their-gov-domains-on-have-i-been-pwned/] , today I'm very happy to welcome the 32nd national CERT to Have I Been Pwned, the Republic of North Macedonia! They now join their counterparts across the globe in having free API-level access to monitor and query their government domains. I look forward to welcoming...

Welcoming the Serbian Government to Have I Been Pwned

Supporting national governments has been a major cornerstone of Have I Been Pwned for the last 4 years [https://www.troyhunt.com/the-uk-and-australian-governments-are-now-monitoring-their-gov-domains-on-have-i-been-pwned/] . Today, I'm very happy to welcome the 31st government on board, Serbia! The National CERT and the Gov-CERT of the Republic of Serbia now has free and complete access to query their government domains via API. Visibility into the exposure of government departments in data bre...

Welcoming the Bulgarian Government to Have I Been Pwned

Data breaches impact us all as individuals, companies and as governments. Over the last 4 years, I've been providing additional access to data breach information in Have I Been Pwned for government agencies responsible for protecting their citizens [https://www.troyhunt.com/the-uk-and-australian-governments-are-now-monitoring-their-gov-domains-on-have-i-been-pwned/] . The access is totally free and amounts to APIs designed to search and monitor government owned domains and TLDs. Today, I'm very...

Welcoming the Italian Government to Have I Been Pwned

For the last 4 years, I've been providing API-level access to national government agencies so that they can search and monitor their government domains on Have I Been Pwned [https://www.troyhunt.com/the-uk-and-australian-governments-are-now-monitoring-their-gov-domains-on-have-i-been-pwned/] . Today, I'm very happy to welcome the 29th government to join the service, Italy! Via CSIRT-Italia within their National Cybersecurity Agency (ACN), they now have free access to breach data I hope will furt...

Setting the Bar for Government Access to Have I Been Pwned

Over the last 4 years, I've onboarded 28 national government CERTs onto Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) and given them free and open access to APIs that enable them to query and monitor their gov domains. This doesn't give them access to any information they can't already access via the free public domain search feature, but it makes their lives easier. Much easier. As interest from govs has grown, it's caused me to ponder: who am I willing to give access to? Who am I unwilling to give access to? Thos...

Welcoming the New Zealand Government to Have I Been Pwned

Continuing the march forward to provide governments with better access to their departments' data exposed in breaches [https://www.troyhunt.com/the-uk-and-australian-governments-are-now-monitoring-their-gov-domains-on-have-i-been-pwned/] , I'm very pleased to welcome the 28th national government onto Have I Been Pwned - New Zealand! They'll join the other govs around the world that have complete free access to breach information impacting their gov domains and TLDs. You'll see more national gov...

Welcoming the Czech Republic Government to Have I Been Pwned

For the last few years, I've been welcoming national governments to Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) and granting them full and free access to domain-level searches via a dedicated API. Today, I'm very happy to welcome the Czech Republic's National Cyber and Information Security Agency who can now query their government domains along with the 26 other nations that have come before them. Data breaches impact all of us in one way or another, and government agencies are no exception. My hope is that in su...