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Weekly Update 471

I'm so happy to finally be getting those HIBP demos out! The first couple are simple, but as I say in this week's vid, it's the simple questions we're still dealing with. As if to taunt me (or prove my point), we got this ticket just a couple of hours ago:

I’m looking at 10-12k api calls per year. Do you have a custom package that will fit this range?

Now, let's see what happens if you drop that exact text into the chatbot on support.haveibeenpwned.com:

There's literally a dedicated KB article about this! In fact, I wrote it only yesterday, yet here we are. Which perhaps says that putting the exact answers people need out there won't actually save us from support queries like this anyway... 🤔

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  2. We got our first HIBP demo up last week on how to do domain searches (it's pretty straightforward, but as I was saying...)
  3. The next HIBP demo covers the API and introduces the free test key (anyone can now start immediately writing code against the API with no need for a subscription)
  4. Bouygues Telecom's breach from last month made its way into HIBP (5.7M unique email addresses is fairly sizeable)
  5. Keeping with the French theme, Cultura also made its way in (it's older, dating back to a year ago, and another 1.5M addresses in there)
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Hi, I'm Troy Hunt, I write this blog, create courses for Pluralsight and am a Microsoft Regional Director and MVP who travels the world speaking at events and training technology professionals