Troy Hunt's breach counter hits 1,000 as disclosure lags stretch
Have I Been Pwned now lists 1,003 breached sites and 17.6B pwned accounts, with recent Carnival and Zara notices arriving weeks after public leaks.
By Ryan Merket · Published
Primary source: Troy Hunt
Why it matters
HIBP's 1,000-breach milestone shows that breach response still has a timing failure: stolen data can circulate for weeks before victims receive official notice.
Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) has loaded the 1,000th data breach into Have I Been Pwned, the breach search and alert service he has run since 2013, and used the milestone to make a sharper point: victims are still learning about exposed data from leak sites and third-party services before they hear from the companies that lost it.…
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