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Troy Hunt
@troyhunt
Creator of @haveibeenpwned. Microsoft Regional Director. Pluralsight author. Online security, technology and “The Cloud”. Australian.
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    Troy Hunt
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    Dec 9, 2022
    Sometimes, life feels like a fairytale. This is now my favourite photo ever ❤️
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    Troy Hunt
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    Jul 19, 2024
    Something super weird happening right now: just been called by several totally different media outlets in the last few minutes, all with Windows machines suddenly BSoD’ing (Blue Screen of Death). Anyone else seen this? Seems to be entering recovery mode:
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    Troy Hunt
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    Jun 6, 2020
    Someone just delivered me a massive data breach. It’s all there - names, addresses, phone numbers - huge!!!
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    Troy Hunt
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    Jan 21, 2025
    You absolute muppet, Ghulam 🤦‍♂️
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    Troy Hunt
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    Apr 27, 2019
    I’m a responsible parent so I use the controls on iOS to limit screen time on the old iPhone my 9-year old uses. A white-listed exception is iMessage; he’s worked out he can send someone a YouTube vid then watch it in iMessage to circumvent the control. So proud 😅
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    Troy Hunt
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    Sep 12, 2016
    This car is white
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    Troy Hunt
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    Oct 19, 2020
    I’d like to say a big “thank you” to @realDonaldTrump for providing me with material that’s going to feature in many, many presentations for years to come 🤣
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    Troy Hunt
    @troyhunt
    Oct 6, 2022
    I love that part of the Microsoft Security Score for Identity in Azure improves your score if you *don't* enforce password rotation, what a sign of the times! Who out there still works somewhere that forces rotation (because "reasons")?
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    Troy Hunt
    @troyhunt
    Mar 26, 2023
    5 months to the day since @elonmusk took over Twitter. It still works just fine. There are new features. This isn’t the outcome many people were predicting.
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    Troy Hunt
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    Oct 9, 2024
    Hi folks, yes, I'm aware of this. I've been in communication with the Internet Archive over the last few days re the data breach, didn't know the site was defaced until people started flagging it with me just now. More soon.
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    Joseph Dombroski
    @jwdomb
    Oct 9, 2024
    Was the Internet Archive (@internetarchive) hacked? 😬I got this JS alert while loading an archived page. cc: @troyhunt
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    Troy Hunt
    @troyhunt
    Apr 18, 2024
    Hmmm… now to find a 4-digit PIN that hasn’t been pwned 🧐
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    Troy Hunt
    @troyhunt
    Jun 28, 2023
    This is so cool, thanks @FBI 😊
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    Troy Hunt
    @troyhunt
    Apr 16, 2023
    Do not start your password with “0”. Because security.
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    mRr3b00t
    @UK_Daniel_Card
    Apr 16, 2023
    These are ridiculous....
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    Troy Hunt
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    Oct 8, 2024
    This was a very uncomfortable breach to process for reasons that should be obvious from @josephfcox's article. Let me add some more "colour" based on what I found:
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    Have I Been Pwned
    @haveibeenpwned
    Oct 8, 2024
    New sensitive breach: "AI girlfriend" site Muah[.]ai had 1.9M email addresses breached last month. Data included AI prompts describing desired images, many sexual in nature and many describing child exploitation. 24% were already in @haveibeenpwned. More: 404media.co/hacked-ai-girl…
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