Government

A couple of months ago, I shared news of on-boarding the UK and Australian governments to Have I Been Pwned (HIBP). As I explained at the time, I wanted to provide the folks there with easy access to their respective government domains which meant providing them with the facility to query at the TLD level - namely, .gov.uk and .gov.au - as well as across a handful of their other whitelisted gov domains on other TLDs. In that post, I also committed to transparency as it relates to government access and as part of that, today I'm happy to welcome the Spanish government to HIBP. As with many countries, Spain has a governmental CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team)...

If I'm honest, I'm constantly surprised by the extent of how far Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) is reaching these days. This is a little project I started whilst killing time in a hotel room in late 2013 after thinking "I wonder if people actually know where their data has been exposed?" I built it in part to help people answer that question and in part because my inner geek wanted to build an interesting project on Microsoft's Azure. I ran it on a coffee budget (the goal was to keep the operating costs under what a couple of cups from a cafe each day would cost) and I made it freely accessible. And then it took off....