Troy Hunt is Microsoft Regional Director, cybersecurity expert and founder of “Have I been Pwned?”

1. cable news  knows it !

An easy way to help find out whether or not you have been compromised by major data breeches. At Hunt’s site, visitors can type in their email address to see if their info is part of any breach. But over 2o million people subscribe to his free email notification service. They get breach alerts that are often timed to the disclosure by a company that’s been hacked—or, when companies refuse to acknowledge Hunt’s efforts at ethical advance notice, before official words of a breach comes down at all. Whenever Hunt adds details from another of the inevitable cavalcade of breaches from public and private sites, subscribers get email. The number of accounts involved range from tens of thousands to hundreds of millions. “Just in the last few days, people have sent me dozens of breaches,” Hunt says.

2. Yep! I've been pwned now what?

What does it mean if my password is in Pwned Passwords?

If a password is found in the Pwned Passwords service, it means it has previously appeared in a data breach. HIBP does not store any information about who the password belonged to, only that it has previously been exposed publicly and how many times it has been seen. A Pwned Password should no longer be used as its exposure puts it at higher risk of being used to login to accounts using the now-exposed secret.

3. Troy speaking @ pluralsight

Watch Troy Hunt, Microsoft Regional Director, cybersecurity expert and founder of “Have I been owned?”, on the mainstage at Pluralsight LIVE 2017.

4. interviewing Troy Hunt

Troy Hunt’s Have I Been Pwned has data from over 305 breaches and 77,000 selective dumps (called “pastes”) that total over 5.3 billion account records.

At Hunt’s site, visitors can type in their email address to see if their info is part of any breach. But over 2o million people subscribe to his free email notification service. They get breach alerts that are often timed to the disclosure by a company that’s been hacked—or, when companies refuse to acknowledge Hunt’s efforts at ethical advance notice, before official words of a breach comes down at all.

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I have been pwned - what do I do now?

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