Finance company stores DB credentials in helpfully labeled spreadsheet

PWNED Welcome, once again, to PWNED, the weekly column where we recount the adventures of IT explorers who found their own ...

Amtrak data breach exposes millions of customer records

A dataset attributed to Amtrak appeared on Have I Been Pwned, reportedly exposing customer emails, names, addresses and ...

ADT data breach hits 5.5 million as hackers start leaking stolen info

Full names, addresses, phone numbers and more exposed ...
The Next Web

Have I Been Pwned goes open-source and teams up with the FBI on leaked passwords

Have I Been Pwned (HIBP), a website built and maintained by security researcher Troy Hunt, is one of the top destinations to find out if your email ID or password has been part of a data breach. Hunt, ...
TechCrunch

How Have I Been Pwned became the keeper of the internet’s biggest data breaches

When Troy Hunt launched Have I Been Pwned in late 2013, he wanted it to answer a simple question: Have you fallen victim to a data breach? Seven years later, the data-breach notification service ...

Home security giant ADT data breach affects 5.5 million people

The ShinyHunters extortion group stole the personal information of 5.5 million individuals after breaching the systems of ...
Lifehacker

See If Your Passwords Have Been Compromised by Adding 'Pwned Passwords' to 1Password

Troy Hunt is the developer of Have I Been Pwned, a free site that lets users enter their email address and compare it to a database of compromised accounts. Remember when Kickstarter and Bit.ly were ...
Engadget

Have I Been Pwned's code base will be open sourced

For the last several years, Have I Been Pwned has proven a valuable way to determine whether your email address is connected to a wide number of data breaches. Following a failed acquisition process, ...
ZDNet

Have I been Pwned goes open source

People check the free HIBP site at a rate of almost 1 billion requests per month. It collects data from all the many personal security breaches that happen every week or two. Last year alone we saw ...

ADT got hacked again. Your address may be out there.

The company paid to protect your home just got burglarized. For the third time. And it’s not just an ADT problem.
ZDNet

PassProtect tells you if your password has been pwned

SEE: Password managers: How and why to use them (free PDF) Even if your account hasn't been leaked by poor security at a website, lots of people use the same bad passwords (like 123456, password1 and ...