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Phishing emails are becoming increasingly difficult to differentiate from legitimate ones, as highlighted by developer Nick Johnson, who says he was "targeted by an extremely sophisticated phishing ...
This morning, I received a Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) alert about my email address showing up in a breach labeled “Troy Hunt’s Mailchimp List.” My first reaction was disbelief. Troy Hunt ...
Infosec veteran Troy Hunt of HaveIBeenPwned fame is notifying thousands of people after phishers scooped up his Mailchimp mailing list.… He said the list comprises around 16,000 records and ...
Facepalm: Even the best of us can fall for scams. Just look at Troy Hunt, the security expert and creator of the HaveIBeenPwned.com website, who was tricked by a phishing email. The attackers ...
Troy Hunt, the security researcher behind the popular “Have I Been Pwned?” data breach notification site has fallen victim to a phishing attack that exposed the email addresses of subscribers ...
Renowned cybersecurity expert Troy Hunt falls victim to a phishing attack, resulting in the exposure of thousands of subscriber details, and don’t lose your life savings in a whisky scam… All this and ...
Troy Hunt, operator of the Have-I-Been-Pwned (HIBP) service, was the victim of a phishing attack and thus "pwned" himself. As a result, 16,627 email addresses from the mailing list for the ...
Humans aren’t infallible, as much as we’d like to be. That includes security experts, as Troy Hunt revealed yesterday. Turns out, the legend behind HaveIBeenPwned (a site that lets you see whi ...
The website’s creator, Troy Hunt, was the subject of a phishing attack earlier this week. The attack was unrelated to the HaveIBeenPwned website and compromised Hunt’s personal Mailchimp account.
Troy Hunt, creator of popular website HaveIBeenPwned, has himself fallen victim to a phishing incident Attackers exfiltrated 16,000 credentials Hunt calls the email 'very well-crafted' Tory Hunt ...
After years of providing breach notifications and useful advice about how to avoid getting hacked, Have I Been Pwned operator Troy Hunt’s personal blog mailing list has become the source of a ...
Have I Been Pwned’s owner, cybersecurity expert Troy Hunt, has been pwned. To be clear, Have I Been Pwned is fine but, subscribers to Hunt’s personal blog may want to be mindful of potential ...