Skip to content

Project

Have I Been Pwned

Have I Been Pwned is a free online service that lets people check whether their email addresses or data appear in known data breaches.

Known aliases

  • HaveIBeenPwned
  • HIBP

Current stories

buildOne report1 publisher

A customer's call exposed the leak of 521 nimoca users' card numbers from a side web service

Nimoca Co. says an intruder took email addresses, card numbers and birth dates for 521 users of its online card-history service. The breach came to light when a rider phoned the call center about an email he did not recognise.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence45
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+10
Incentives65
Confidence40
securityConfirmed3 publishers

RingCentral's platform held. Its customer records are on the internet anyway.

ShinyHunters claims 623GB from a July social-engineering campaign and leaked part of it. Have I Been Pwned confirmed 1.6 million account records. Both the vendor and the crew can be telling the truth.

Perspective Coverage

3 publishers
Builder
Builder 22%
Operator
Operator 62%
Investor
Investor 16%

Reality

Evidence72
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+5
Incentives55
Confidence70
securityConfirmed6 publishers

MAG's car park and airport Wi-Fi systems gave up 8.7 million identity records

The systems that sold parking bays, lounge passes and Wi-Fi logins were never in the same control scope as anything that moves aircraft, and they held phone numbers, plates and postcodes for 8.7 million people.

Perspective Coverage

6 publishers
Builder
Builder 30%
Operator
Operator 54%
Investor
Investor 16%

Reality

Evidence72
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap−35
Incentives60
Confidence68
securityOne report1 publisher

ShinyHunters dumps 12.9 million Carhartt records after a refused $3.3 million ransom

Have I Been Pwned traced the 50GB archive to Carhartt's Databricks analytics platform. The exposed fields are emails, names, phone numbers and addresses, which makes this a targeting corpus rather than a credential-stuffing list.

Reality

Evidence60
Adoption71
Hype gap+12
Incentives66
Confidence62
productOne report1 publisher

RingCentral lost 1.6 million records to a phone call, not a missing patch

ShinyHunters says it voice-phished a RingCentral employee. The vendor sells business telephony, and its core platform never broke. The control that failed was a person.

Publishers:thenextweb.com

Reality

Evidence54
Adoption71
Hype gap+16
Incentives69
Confidence56