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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 ...
Researchers identified PoisonSeed as the same threat actors behind Troy Hunt’s Mailchimp and Akamai’s SendGrid phishing.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Troy Hunt’s Have I Been Pwned is a one-stop shop for learning if you’re among the millions affected by security breaches. And he’s trying to do it the responsible way. Every Internet ...
A hacker has managed to phish Troy Hunt, the creator of HaveIBeenPwned.com, tricking the security expert into clicking a malicious email while he was jetlagged. The breach affects people who ...