Troy Hunt, the security researcher behind the popular “Have I Been Pwned?” data breach notification site has fallen victim to a phishing attack that exposed the email addresses of subscribers ...

Troy Hunt – the renowned cybersecurity expert behind HIBP – had just fallen for a phishing scam. It wasn’t a hoax, and it wasn’t some obscure company losing control of its data.

Troy Hunt, creator of popular website HaveIBeenPwned, has himself fallen victim to a phishing incident Attackers exfiltrated 16,000 credentials Hunt calls the email 'very well-crafted' Tory Hunt ...

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However, the hacker behind the phishing attack appears to have only stolen the email addresses of those who subscribed to Troy Hunt's blog, rather than Haveibeenpwned.com. By Michael Kan Mar 26, 2025 ...

Infosec veteran Troy Hunt of HaveIBeenPwned fame is notifying thousands of people after phishers scooped up his Mailchimp mailing list.… He said the list comprises around 16,000 records and ...

Renowned cybersecurity expert Troy Hunt falls victim to a phishing attack, resulting in the exposure of thousands of subscriber details, and don’t lose your life savings in a whisky scam… All this and ...

"Part of the problem is that phishing signals are often indistinguishable from positive user experience attributes," Troy Hunt, creator of HaveIBeenPwned and digital advisor to Nord Security told ...

Troy Hunt, creator of popular website HaveIBeenPwned, has himself fallen victim to a phishing incident Attackers exfiltrated 16,000 credentials Hunt calls the email 'very well-crafted' Tory Hunt ...

However, the hacker behind the phishing attack appears to have only stolen the email addresses of those who subscribed to Troy Hunt's blog, rather than Haveibeenpwned.com.