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As of March 2016, Have I Been Pwned? receives around ten thousand daily visitors and has 350 thousand subscribers, who receive alerts if their email address appears in a new data breach.<ref name=RiseOfHIBP/> |
As of March 2016, Have I Been Pwned? receives around ten thousand daily visitors and has 350 thousand subscribers, who receive alerts if their email address appears in a new data breach.<ref name=RiseOfHIBP/> |
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As of March 20th 2016 the Have I Been Pwned? brand and name are now in dispute with the guys responsible for the .org incarnation of the service taking hold of the brand/name by way of a Copyright of Trademark application. |
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== History == |
== History == |
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Type of site | Internet security |
|---|---|
| Owner | Troy Hunt |
| URL | haveibeenpwned |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | 2013 |
Have I Been Pwned? (abbreviated HIBP) is a website that allows internet users to check if their personal data has been compromised by a security breach of any websites or services they use. The service collects and analyzes dozens of database dumps and pastes containing information about hundreds of millions of leaked accounts, and allows users to search for their own information by entering their username or email address. Users can also sign up to be notified if their email address appears in future dumps. The site has been widely touted as a valuable resource for internet users wishing to protect their own security and privacy.[1][2][3] Have I Been Pwned? is run by security expert Troy Hunt.
As of March 2016, Have I Been Pwned? receives around ten thousand daily visitors and has 350 thousand subscribers, who receive alerts if their email address appears in a new data breach.[4]
As of March 20th 2016 the Have I Been Pwned? brand and name are now in dispute with the guys responsible for the .org incarnation of the service taking hold of the brand/name by way of a Copyright of Trademark application.
History
Have I Been Pwned? was created by Australian web security expert Troy Hunt in late 2013. Hunt was inspired to create the site while analyzing data breach trends, as he realized breaches could greatly impact users who might not even be aware their data was compromised. "Probably the main catalyst was Adobe," said Hunt of his motivation for starting the site, referring to the Adobe Systems security breach that affected 153 million accounts in October 2013.[4]
Initially, the site allowed users to enter their email address and see which (if any) data breaches included records related to that address. Later,[when?] the site also added monitoring for pastebins, which allows many data breaches to be automatically detected and added to the site's database.
In July 2015, following the Ashley Madison data breach, Hunt added functionality by which breaches considered "sensitive" would not be publicly searchable, and would only be revealed to subscribers of the email alert system.[3] This functionality was enabled for the Ashley Madison data, as well as for data from other potentially scandalous sites, such as AdultFriendFinder.[5]
See also
References
- ^ Woollaston, Victoria (9 December 2015). "Have I been PWNED? Site reveals if your email address was leaked". Mail Online. Retrieved 18 March 2016.
- ^ Seltzer, Larry (5 December 2013). "How to find out if your password has been stolen". ZDNet. Retrieved 18 March 2016.
- ^ a b Price, Rob (20 August 2015). "HaveIBeenPwned.com lets you see if you're in the Ashley Madison hack leak". Business Insider. Retrieved 18 March 2016.
- ^ a b Coz, Joseph (10 March 2016). "The Rise of 'Have I Been Pwned?', an Invaluable Resource in the Hacking Age". Vice. Retrieved 18 March 2016.
- ^ Hunt, Troy (29 July 2015). "Here's how I'm going to handle the Ashley Madison data". troyhunt.com. Retrieved 18 March 2016.