Want to know if your email, or any of your personal information was exposed in the latest headline-making data breach? That one from the health insurance company you use? Or that financial services company you’re a customer of? Or even worse, did your work email account get caught up in on of those?
Have I Been Pwned has been providing us the answer to those questions and more for right around 12 years now. It’s ultra simple to use to check on whether your data was exposed in one breach event, and can send you email alerts to let you know when that has happened even when you had no idea that X company or service suffered a breach.
And … as of a couple weeks ago, there’s a shiny new website for it, and some cool new and enhanced features.
The site was a one-man band for a long while, run by Troy Hunt:
He now a massive team of three people including himself, his wife, and a fellow Microsoft MVP.
Just to give an idea of the sheer volume of data breaches, and even more accounts compromised, look at the numbers here on the HaveIBeenPwned site and the B for billions of accounts:
HaveIBeenPwned 2.0 looks like an impressive update to an already great tool. Here are some of the highlighted new or improved features:
- A website rebuild
- New search bar
- A central dashboard - with sections for Personal and Business and lots more
- A brand new HaveIBeenPwned merchandise store, for all of its fans around the world
This is my favorite addition - a brand new Breach page and this element of it:
… what's unique about the new page is much more targeted advice about what to do after the breach
This recommended set of actions to take will be incredibly useful:
If you don’t already use HaveIBeenPwned, don’t just look at my words about it - head on over to its creator, Troy Hunt’s post on it.
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