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HaveIBeenPwned serves as a platform for those who can search for their email address to find whether it was accessed by hackers via a data breach. But what if the platform itself gets infiltrated and leaks the whole of its database to cyber crooks?
Well, unconfirmed reports state that the entire database owned by the Microsoft Regional Director Troy Hunt was hacked by cyber criminals through an unknown vulnerability.
https://www.cybersecurity-insiders.com/cyber-attack-on-haveibeenpwned-leaks-email-data-to-hackers/
Ugh. But to be fair, it's already out there - that's how he has it.
@th3j35t3r @ecksmc Mostly. He gets bones thrown to him from a few sources like the FBI, Ask me how I know? LOL
@ecksmc Unfortunately Troy is a one-man show with HIBP. If this does prove true, I wouldn't be surprised. The bigger question will be is all the data he doesn't actually give us as consumer (pwds, cookies, actual PII) get floated out there now.