In 2013, Adobe was hacked and the attackers got a list of 153 million usernames and passwords. These passwords weren’t ...

Humans aren’t infallible, as much as we’d like to be. That includes security experts, as Troy Hunt revealed yesterday. Turns out, the legend behind HaveIBeenPwned (a site that lets you see whi ...

This morning, I received a Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) alert about my email address showing up in a breach labeled “Troy Hunt’s Mailchimp List.” My first reaction was disbelief. Troy Hunt ...

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 ...

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 ...

He's just "a dude on the web", but Troy Hunt has ended up playing an oddly central role in global cybersecurity. In April, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation found itself with a rather ...

Facepalm: Even the best of us can fall for scams. Just look at Troy Hunt, the security expert and creator of the HaveIBeenPwned.com website, who was tricked by a phishing email. The attackers ...

A great many readers this month reported receiving alerts that their Social Security Number, name, address and other personal information were exposed in a breach at a little-known but aptly-named ...

Troy Hunt, operator of the Have I Been Pwned? breach notification service, said the massive amount of data was posted to a well-known underground market that brokers sales of compromised credentials.

Troy Hunt’s Have I Been Pwned is a one-stop shop for learning if you’re among the millions affected by security breaches. And he’s trying to do it the responsible way. Every Internet ...