Troy Hunt
@troyhunt.com
Creator of Have I Been Pwned. Microsoft Regional Director. Pluralsight author. Online security, technology and “The Cloud”. Australian.
Going live with my weekly vid in 15 mins! ESP32, E10G30-F2 and Other Nerd Stuff; Substack, ANPS and Toy Battles Data Breaches; Sneak Peek at Cool Stuff Coming to HIBP youtube.com/live/gHAhdBw...
Weekly Update 491
ESP32, E10G30-F2 and Other Nerd Stuff; Substack, ANPS and Toy Battles Data Breaches; Sneak Peek at Cool Stuff Coming to HIBP
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February 12, 2026 at 11:00 PM
Going live with my weekly vid in 15 mins! ESP32, E10G30-F2 and Other Nerd Stuff; Substack, ANPS and Toy Battles Data Breaches; Sneak Peek at Cool Stuff Coming to HIBP youtube.com/live/gHAhdBw...
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New breach: Gaming community Toy Battles had 1k unique email addresses breached last week. Data also included usernames, IP addresses and chat logs. 49% were already in @haveibeenpwned.com . Read more: haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/ToyBa...
Have I Been Pwned: Toy Battles Data Breach
In February 2026, the online gaming community Toy Battles suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 1k unique email addresses alongside usernames, IP addresses and chat logs. Following the breach, ...
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February 10, 2026 at 2:57 AM
New breach: Gaming community Toy Battles had 1k unique email addresses breached last week. Data also included usernames, IP addresses and chat logs. 49% were already in @haveibeenpwned.com . Read more: haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/ToyBa...
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New breach: French non-profit Association Nationale des Premiers Secours (ANPS) had 5.6k unique email addresses exposed last month. Data also included names, dates of birth and places of birth. 69% were already in @haveibeenpwned.com. Read more: haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/ANPS
Have I Been Pwned: Association Nationale des Premiers Secours Data Breach
In January 2026, a data breach impacting the French non-profit Association Nationale des Premiers Secours (ANPS) was posted to a hacking forum. The breach exposed 5.6k unique email addresses along wit...
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February 10, 2026 at 2:05 AM
New breach: French non-profit Association Nationale des Premiers Secours (ANPS) had 5.6k unique email addresses exposed last month. Data also included names, dates of birth and places of birth. 69% were already in @haveibeenpwned.com. Read more: haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/ANPS
Weekly update is up! Home Sweet Home; First Stream From the New PC; Law Enforcement and Cybercrime Prevention; The Betterment Data Breach www.troyhunt.com/weekly-updat...
Weekly Update 490
A big "thank you" to everyone who helped me troubleshoot the problem with my "Print Screen" button on the new PC. Try as we all might, none of us could figure out why it refused to bind to SnagIt and…
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February 9, 2026 at 7:42 AM
Weekly update is up! Home Sweet Home; First Stream From the New PC; Law Enforcement and Cybercrime Prevention; The Betterment Data Breach www.troyhunt.com/weekly-updat...
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New breach: Substack had 663k records compromised in October and published online this week. Data included email address, phone number and associated public account info. 53% were already in @haveibeenpwned.com. Read more: haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/Subst...
Have I Been Pwned: Substack Data Breach
In October 2025, the publishing platform Substack suffered a data breach that was subsequently circulated more widely in February 2026. The breach exposed 663k account holder records containing email ...
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February 6, 2026 at 11:44 PM
New breach: Substack had 663k records compromised in October and published online this week. Data included email address, phone number and associated public account info. 53% were already in @haveibeenpwned.com. Read more: haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/Subst...
Going live with my weekly vid in 10 mins! Home Sweet Home; First Stream From the New PC; Law Enforcement and Cybercrime Prevention; The Betterment Data Breach: youtube.com/live/mEE0Qht...
Weekly Update 490
Home Sweet Home; First Stream From the New PC; Law Enforcement and Cybercrime Prevention; The Betterment Data Breach
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February 6, 2026 at 9:20 PM
Going live with my weekly vid in 10 mins! Home Sweet Home; First Stream From the New PC; Law Enforcement and Cybercrime Prevention; The Betterment Data Breach: youtube.com/live/mEE0Qht...
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New breach: Betterment suffered a data breach last month exposing 1.4M unique email addresses. Following the incident, customers received crypto-related scam messages. 75% were already in @haveibeenpwned.com . Read more: haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/Bette...
Have I Been Pwned: Betterment Data Breach
In January 2026, the automated investment platform Betterment confirmed it had suffered a data breach attributed to a social engineering attack. As part of the incident, Betterment customers received ...
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February 5, 2026 at 12:40 AM
New breach: Betterment suffered a data breach last month exposing 1.4M unique email addresses. Following the incident, customers received crypto-related scam messages. 75% were already in @haveibeenpwned.com . Read more: haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/Bette...
Weekly update is up! I’m in Hong Kong; The Sound Cloud Data Breach; The Panera Bread Breach; [Clawd|Molt]Bot / OpenClaw www.troyhunt.com/weekly-updat...
Weekly Update 489
This week I'm in Hong Kong, and the day after recording, I gave the talk shown in the image above at INTERPOL's Cybercrime Expert Group. I posted a little about this on Facebook and LinkedIn, but…
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February 4, 2026 at 7:11 AM
Weekly update is up! I’m in Hong Kong; The Sound Cloud Data Breach; The Panera Bread Breach; [Clawd|Molt]Bot / OpenClaw www.troyhunt.com/weekly-updat...
I’m live with my weekly vid! I’m in Hong Kong; The Sound Cloud Data Breach; The Panera Bread Breach; [Clawd|Molt]Bot / OpenClaw www.youtube.com/live/VPfFn1d...
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I’m in Hong Kong; The Sound Cloud Data Breach; The Panera Bread Breach; [Clawd|Molt]Bot / OpenClaw
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February 1, 2026 at 8:05 AM
I’m live with my weekly vid! I’m in Hong Kong; The Sound Cloud Data Breach; The Panera Bread Breach; [Clawd|Molt]Bot / OpenClaw www.youtube.com/live/VPfFn1d...
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New breach: Panera Bread was extorted earlier this month before having 5.1M unique email addresses dumped publicly this week. Data also included name, phone and physical address. 77% were already in @haveibeenpwned.com . Read more: haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/Paner...
Have I Been Pwned: Panera Bread Data Breach
In January 2026, Panera Bread suffered a data breach that exposed 14M records. After an attempted extortion failed, the attackers published the data publicly, which included 5.1M unique email addresse...
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January 31, 2026 at 3:24 AM
New breach: Panera Bread was extorted earlier this month before having 5.1M unique email addresses dumped publicly this week. Data also included name, phone and physical address. 77% were already in @haveibeenpwned.com . Read more: haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/Paner...
Weekly update is up! Happy Australia Day! I'm Back From the Arctic; The Under Armour Breach; The UK, Under 16s and Social Media www.troyhunt.com/weekly-updat...
Weekly Update 488
It's the discussion about the reaction of some people in the UK regarding their impending social media ban for under 16s that bugged me most. Most noteably was the hand-waving around "the gov is just...
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January 27, 2026 at 11:35 PM
Weekly update is up! Happy Australia Day! I'm Back From the Arctic; The Under Armour Breach; The UK, Under 16s and Social Media www.troyhunt.com/weekly-updat...
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New breach: SoundCloud had 30M email addresses mapped to public profile data last month including name, username, follower count and in some cases, country. 67% were already in @haveibeenpwned.com. Read more: haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/Sound...
Have I Been Pwned: SoundCloud Data Breach
In December 2025, SoundCloud announced it had discovered unauthorised activity on its platform. The incident allowed an attacker to map publicly available SoundCloud profile data to email addresses fo...
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January 27, 2026 at 1:22 AM
New breach: SoundCloud had 30M email addresses mapped to public profile data last month including name, username, follower count and in some cases, country. 67% were already in @haveibeenpwned.com. Read more: haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/Sound...
About to go live with my weekly vid! Happy Australia Day! I'm Back From the Arctic; The Under Armour Breach; The UK, Under 16s and Social Media youtube.com/live/SKdisZ9...
Weekly Update 488
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January 25, 2026 at 10:03 PM
About to go live with my weekly vid! Happy Australia Day! I'm Back From the Arctic; The Under Armour Breach; The UK, Under 16s and Social Media youtube.com/live/SKdisZ9...
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New breach: Under Armour was the victim of a ransomware attack in November. Customer data was published to a hacking forum this week and includes 72M email addresses, along with other personal information. 76% were already in @haveibeenpwned.com. Read more: haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/Under...
Have I Been Pwned: Under Armour Data Breach
In November 2025, the Everest ransomware group claimed Under Armour as a victim and attempted to extort a ransom, alleging they had obtained access to 343GB of data. In January 2026, customer data fro...
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January 21, 2026 at 6:50 AM
New breach: Under Armour was the victim of a ransomware attack in November. Customer data was published to a hacking forum this week and includes 72M email addresses, along with other personal information. 76% were already in @haveibeenpwned.com. Read more: haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/Under...
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New breach: Indian streaming music service Raaga allegedly had 10M records breached last month. Data included email, name, gender, age, postcode and unsalted MD5 password hash. 60% were already in @haveibeenpwned.com. Read more: haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/Raaga
Have I Been Pwned: Raaga Data Breach
In December 2025, data allegedly breached from the Indian streaming music service "Raaga" was posted for sale to a popular hacking forum. The data contained 10M unique email addresses along with names...
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January 19, 2026 at 5:40 PM
New breach: Indian streaming music service Raaga allegedly had 10M records breached last month. Data included email, name, gender, age, postcode and unsalted MD5 password hash. 60% were already in @haveibeenpwned.com. Read more: haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/Raaga
Weekly update is up! A Fully Automated Explanation of “AI Slop” — Why the Internet Thinks Everything Made by Computers Is Now Wet Garbage
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I thought Scott would cop it first when he posted about what his solar system really cost him last year. "You're so gonna get that stupid AI-slop response from some people", I joked. But no, he got other...
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January 18, 2026 at 11:33 PM
Weekly update is up! A Fully Automated Explanation of “AI Slop” — Why the Internet Thinks Everything Made by Computers Is Now Wet Garbage
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New breach: France's Pass'Sport had 6.5M email addresses breached and posted publicly last month. Data included name, phone, gender and physical address. 71% were already in @haveibeenpwned.com. Read more: haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/PassS...
Have I Been Pwned: Pass'Sport Data Breach
In December 2025, data from France's Pass'Sport program was posted to a popular hacking forum. Initially misattributed to CAF (the French family allowance fund), the data contained 6.5M unique email a...
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January 18, 2026 at 4:31 PM
New breach: France's Pass'Sport had 6.5M email addresses breached and posted publicly last month. Data included name, phone, gender and physical address. 71% were already in @haveibeenpwned.com. Read more: haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/PassS...
I’m live from Oslo! A Fully Automated Explanation of “AI Slop” — Why the Internet Thinks Everything Made by Computers Is Now Wet Garbage www.youtube.com/live/r9i8zDp...
January 16, 2026 at 3:28 PM
I’m live from Oslo! A Fully Automated Explanation of “AI Slop” — Why the Internet Thinks Everything Made by Computers Is Now Wet Garbage www.youtube.com/live/r9i8zDp...
Weekly update is up! I'm in Oslo; The WhiteDate Breach; The Instagram Scraped Data (and password resets) www.troyhunt.com/weekly-updat...
Weekly Update 486
I’m in Oslo! Flighty is telling me I’ve flown in or out of here 43 times since a visit in 2014 set me on a new path professionally and, many years later, personally. It’s special here, like a second…
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January 16, 2026 at 6:40 AM
Weekly update is up! I'm in Oslo; The WhiteDate Breach; The Instagram Scraped Data (and password resets) www.troyhunt.com/weekly-updat...
Occasionally, someone takes issue with me flagging a data breach as "sensitive" such that the email addresses can't be publicly searched because they want to dox the users. That's a *really* bad idea, for many reasons: www.troyhunt.com/who-decides-...
Who Decides Who Doesn’t Deserve Privacy?
Remember the Ashley Madison data breach? That was now more than a decade ago, yet it arguably remains the single most noteworthy data breach of all time. There are many reasons for this accolade, but…
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January 13, 2026 at 11:42 AM
Occasionally, someone takes issue with me flagging a data breach as "sensitive" such that the email addresses can't be publicly searched because they want to dox the users. That's a *really* bad idea, for many reasons: www.troyhunt.com/who-decides-...
Going live with my weekly vid... now! I'm in Oslo; The WhiteDate Breach; The Instagram Scraped Data (and password resets) www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_70...
Weekly Update 486
I'm in Oslo; The WhiteDate Breach; The Instagram Scraped Data (and password resets)
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January 13, 2026 at 8:09 AM
Going live with my weekly vid... now! I'm in Oslo; The WhiteDate Breach; The Instagram Scraped Data (and password resets) www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_70...
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New scrape: Instagram allegedly had 17M rows of largely public data scraped from an API and posted to a hacking forum this week. 6.2M rows also included an email address, and some rows a phone number. 100% were already in @haveibeenpwned.com. Read more: haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/Insta...
Have I Been Pwned: Instagram Data Breach
In January 2026, data allegedly scraped via an Instagram API was posted to a popular hacking forum. The dataset contained 17M rows of public Instagram information, including usernames, display names, ...
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January 11, 2026 at 5:03 PM
New scrape: Instagram allegedly had 17M rows of largely public data scraped from an API and posted to a hacking forum this week. 6.2M rows also included an email address, and some rows a phone number. 100% were already in @haveibeenpwned.com. Read more: haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/Insta...
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New breach: A reincarnation of BreachForums was breached in Aug before being taken down by law enforcement agencies in Oct. Data included 672k unique email addresses across user, post and private message tables. 53% were already in @haveibeenpwned.com. More: haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/Breac...
Have I Been Pwned: BreachForums (2025) Data Breach
In October 2025, a reincarnation of the hacking forum BreachForums, which had previously been shut down multiple times, was taken offline by a coalition of law enforcement agencies. In the months lead...
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January 11, 2026 at 8:49 AM
New breach: A reincarnation of BreachForums was breached in Aug before being taken down by law enforcement agencies in Oct. Data included 672k unique email addresses across user, post and private message tables. 53% were already in @haveibeenpwned.com. More: haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/Breac...
Weekly update is up! Live from Dubai with @scotthelme.bsky.social! My Changing View on Sponsorships; Scott on Moving to Dubai; On the Overhead of Support www.troyhunt.com/weekly-updat...
Weekly Update 485
15 mins and 40 seconds. That's how long it took to troubleshoot the first tech problem of 2026, and that's how far you'll need to skip through this video to hear the audio at normal volume. The proble...
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January 7, 2026 at 6:28 AM
Weekly update is up! Live from Dubai with @scotthelme.bsky.social! My Changing View on Sponsorships; Scott on Moving to Dubai; On the Overhead of Support www.troyhunt.com/weekly-updat...
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New sensitive breach: Europid dating service WhiteDate had 6k unique emails breached last month, among extensive other personal data including physical attributes and IQ level. 59% were already in @haveibeenpwned.com. Read more: haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/White...
Have I Been Pwned: WhiteDate Data Breach
In December 2025, the dating website "for a Europid vision" WhiteDate suffered a data breach that exposed 6k unique email addresses. The breach exposed extensive further personal information including...
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January 6, 2026 at 6:36 AM
New sensitive breach: Europid dating service WhiteDate had 6k unique emails breached last month, among extensive other personal data including physical attributes and IQ level. 59% were already in @haveibeenpwned.com. Read more: haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/White...