Have you ever wondered how much of your personal information is available online?

Here’s your chance to find out.

#CoSoSec

we’ve used Hunt’s, have-i-been-pwned, database to help you:

Find out what data breaches you’ve been caught up in
See a visual summary of the potential scale of the leaked information out there about you
Understand how something known as “the mosaic effect” can increase the risks we all face online

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-18/data-breaches-your-identity-interactive/102175688

tell ya what seeing it all laid out in that way from ABC & HaveIBeenPwned is quite an eye opener

The first breach you showed up in was at ▆ back in 2012.

i mean, the email in question i knew had been in a few breaches but still seeing all the results displayed in this manner

Between them, 22 distinct pieces of your identity have been potentially exposed, many of them multiple times over.

it's called the “mosaic effect”, and it means that your risk compounds with every breach. This is because all of that information can be tied back together using one piece of information that links it all together — in this case, your email address.

and your info can end up online by others using services

Troy Hunt has been caught up in 28 breaches himself, and he’d never even heard of several companies that exposed his personal information until they were breached.

One of these situations has stuck in his mind.

“I once caught up with someone in an infosec (information-security) capacity and they added me to their address book,” he recalls.

This person used Covve, a contacts app that stores data in the cloud — though Troy had no idea about this yet. When Covve’s server was later breached, Troy’s name, phone number and email address all ended up in the data.