For Sale: Have I Been Pwned

hawki · Jun 11, 2019

"Security researcher Troy Hunt revealed on Tuesday that he is planning to sell his data breach service Have I Been Pwned (HIPB)..."

https://gizmodo.com/for-sale-have-i-been-pwned-1835413945

guest · Mar 3, 2020

Have I Been S0ld? No, trusted security website HIBP off the table, will remain independent
Owner Troy Hunt staying in the saddle after potential deal falls through
March 3, 2020
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/03/03/have_i_been_pwned_no_longer_being_sold/

The popular security website Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) will remain independent – despite owner Troy Hunt's decision last year to put the business up for sale.

Hunt's site is a database of usernames or email addresses that have been exposed in data breaches. At the time of writing, it contains 9,543,096,417 records, which happens to be more than the population of Earth, showing the extent of such breaches.
Things have not worked out as planned. It was not for lack of interest from acquirers. Hunt said in a lengthy post:

"We spoke to 141 companies from around the globe." That was reduced to 43, in part because Hunt "culled companies that I didn't believe should have responsibility for the sort of data HIBP has, that wouldn't shepherd the service in the direction I believed it should go, or were simply companies that I didn't want to work for."
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Troy Hunt: Project Svalbard, Have I Been Pwned and its Ongoing Independence

stapp · Mar 3, 2020

I see Emsisoft now use it

The website HaveIBeenPwned.com provides a quick way to check whether any of your user account passwords have been stolen in a hack and leaked online.
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Emsisoft even goes one step further in protecting your user account by checking whether your password was used before and got leaked.
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No worries, we don’t send your password over to HaveIBeenPwned. Verification only needs a part of a calculated hash to work, so it’s impossible to reverse recover your password at any time.
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https://blog.emsisoft.com/en/35703/new-in-2020-3-redesigned-emsisoft-emergency-kit/

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