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Troy Hunt
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Birth Name:Troy Adam Hunt[1]
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Nationality:Australian
Known For:Have I Been Pwned?
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Troy Adam Hunt is an Australian web security consultant known for public education and outreach on security topics. He created and operates Have I Been Pwned?, a data breach search website that allows users to see if their personal information has been compromised. He has also authored several popular security-related courses on Pluralsight, and regularly presents keynotes and workshops on security topics. He created ASafaWeb, a tool that formerly performed automated security analysis on ASP.NET websites.[5]

Data breaches

As part of his work administering the Have I Been Pwned? (HIBP) website, Hunt has been involved in the publication of 644 data breaches,[6] and journalists cite him as a cybersecurity expert[7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] and data-breach expert.[13] [14] [15]

HIBP had recorded more than 5 billion compromised user-accounts. Governments of Australia, United Kingdom[16] and Spain use the service to monitor their official domains.[17] Popular services, such as 1Password,[18] Eve Online, Okta[19] and Kogan, have integrated HIBP into their account-verification process.

Gizmodo included HIBP in its October 2018 list of "100 Websites That Shaped the Internet as We Know It".[20]

In August 2015, following the Ashley Madison data breach, Hunt received many emails from Ashley Madison members asking for help. He criticized the company for doing a poor job informing its userbase.

In February 2016 children's toy-maker VTech, who had suffered a major data breach months earlier, updated its terms of service to absolve itself of wrongdoing in the event of future breaches. Hunt, who had added the data from VTech's breach to the databases of Have I Been Pwned?, published a blog post harshly criticizing VTech's new policy, calling it "grossly negligent". He later removed the VTech breach from the database, stating that only two people besides himself had access to the data and wishing to reduce the chance of its spread.[21]

In February 2017 Hunt published details of vulnerabilities in the Internet-connected children's toy, CloudPets, which had allowed access to 820,000 user records as well as 2.2 million audio files belonging to those users.[22] [23]

In November 2017 Hunt testified before the United States House Committee on Energy and Commerce about the impact of data breaches.[24]

Also in November 2017 Hunt joined Report URI, a project (launched in 2015 by Scott Helme) which allows real-time monitoring of CSP and HPKP violations on a website. He planned to bring funding and his expertise to the project.[25] [26]

Education

Hunt is known for his efforts in security education for computer and IT professionals. He has created several dozen courses on Pluralsight, an online education and training website for computer and creative professionals. He is one of the primary course authors for Pluralsight's Ethical Hacking path, a collection of courses designed for the Certified Ethical Hacker certification.[27]

Additionally, Hunt works in education by speaking at technology conferences and running workshops. His primary workshop, titled Hack Yourself First, aims to teach software developers with little security background how to defend their applications by looking at them from an attacker's perspective.[28] [29]

Awards and achievements

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Summary of business name details . troyhunt.com.
  2. Web site: Weekly Update 282. YouTube.
  3. Web site: Weekly Update 269. YouTube.
  4. 1572685412807888897. troyhunt. Absolutely over the moon to formally make @Charlotte_Hunt_ a part of our family ❤️ . Troy Hunt.
  5. Web site: Hunt . Troy . It's End of Life for ASafaWeb . 6 November 2018 . 11 February 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210812023524/https://www.troyhunt.com/its-end-of-life-for-asafaweb/ . 12 August 2021.
  6. Web site: Have I Been Pwned. Hunt. Troy. 6 January 2023. Have I Been Pwned.
  7. Web site: The Rise of 'Have I Been Pwned?', an Invaluable Resource in the Hacking Age. Cox. Joseph. 10 March 2016. Vice. 20 October 2021.
  8. Web site: Tool checks phone numbers from Facebook data breach. 6 April 2021. BBC News Online.
  9. Web site: Grindr accounts could be easily hacked with email address. 5 October 2020. BBC News Online.
  10. Web site: Baltimore ransomware attack: NSA faces questions. 27 May 2019. BBC News Online.
  11. Web site: Data from internet-connected teddy bears held ransom, security expert says. Rogers. James. 1 March 2017. Fox News.
  12. Web site: Yahoo hack is a reminder that nothing is safe. Arthur. Charles. 23 September 2016. CNN.
  13. Web site: How to know if you're one of 880,000 Filipinos caught in Facebook's data leak. Lariosa. Saab. 8 April 2021. The Philippine Star.
  14. Web site: More Than 140GB of Data Exposed by Israeli Marketing Company. Bisson. David. 28 February 2020. Tripwire.
  15. Web site: Foodora Data Breach Impacts 727,000 Customers Across 14 Countries. 17 June 2020. CISOMAG.
  16. Web site: The Government Uses 'Have I Been Pwned' to Keep Tabs on Data Breaches. 1 June 2018.
  17. Web site: Breach Alert Service: UK, Australian Governments Plug In. www.bankinfosecurity.com. en. 2019-01-04.
  18. Web site: 1Password now lets you see if your password has been leaked. 23 February 2018. Mallory. Locklear. Engadget. 17 January 2019.
  19. Web site: Okta's PassProtect checks your passwords with 'Have I Been Pwned'. 23 May 2018 . 1 June 2018.
  20. Web site: 100 Websites That Shaped the Internet as We Know It. 19 October 2018. 31 October 2018.
  21. Web site: Hunt. Troy. Have I been pwned, opting out, VTech and general privacy things. 28 June 2016. 8 April 2016.
  22. News: Children's messages in CloudPets data breach. 28 February 2017. BBC News. 6 August 2017. en-GB.
  23. News: CloudPets stuffed toys leak details of half a million users. Hern. Alex. 28 February 2017. The Guardian. 6 August 2017. en-GB. 0261-3077.
  24. Web site: IDENTITY VERIFICATION IN A POST-BREACH WORLD. 1 June 2018.
  25. Web site: I'm Joining Report URI!. November 2017. 25 July 2018.
  26. Web site: The next steps for Report URI. 25 July 2018.
  27. Web site: Troy Hunt - Ethical Hacking Author - Pluralsight. Pluralsight. 20 September 2016.
  28. Web site: FREE COURSE: Hack yourself first (before the bad guys do). Computerworld staff. 5 August 2015. Computerworld. IDG Communications. 4 April 2018.
  29. Web site: Troy Hunt: Workshops. Hunt. Troy. Troy Hunt. 29 March 2016. 4 April 2018.
  30. Web site: Troy Hunt. 1 June 2018.
  31. Web site: Troy Hunt. 1 June 2018.
  32. Web site: AusCERT 2018 - Awards. 1 June 2018. 28 January 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210128073600/https://www2.cso.com.au/article/641857/auscert-2018-awards/. dead.
  33. Web site:
    1. Infosec18: European Blogger Awards Winners Announced
    . 5 June 2018. 11 June 2018.

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