'Have I Been Pwned' Is No Longer For Sale 11
Troy Hunt, the owner and founder of the well-known and respected data breach notification website "Have I Been Pwned," announced in a blog post today that his website is no longer being sold and will continue running independently. The news comes several months after Hunt announced he was actively looking for a buyer.
Last June, Hunt wrote: "To date, every line of code, every configuration and every breached record has been handled by me alone. There is no 'HIBP team,' there's one guy keeping the whole thing afloat. It's time for HIBP to grow up. It's time to go from that one guy doing what he can in his available time to a better-resourced and better-funded structure that's able to do way more than what I ever could on my own."
Now, according to Hunt, "unexpected changes" with the business model of the party believed to be the purchaser of the service "made the deal infeasible." "It wasn't something I could have seen coming nor was it anything to do with HIBP itself, but it introduced a range of new and insurmountable barriers," writes Hunt in today's blog post. Hunt goes on to explain what's been happening since April 2019 and how the service will operate in the future.
Last June, Hunt wrote: "To date, every line of code, every configuration and every breached record has been handled by me alone. There is no 'HIBP team,' there's one guy keeping the whole thing afloat. It's time for HIBP to grow up. It's time to go from that one guy doing what he can in his available time to a better-resourced and better-funded structure that's able to do way more than what I ever could on my own."
Now, according to Hunt, "unexpected changes" with the business model of the party believed to be the purchaser of the service "made the deal infeasible." "It wasn't something I could have seen coming nor was it anything to do with HIBP itself, but it introduced a range of new and insurmountable barriers," writes Hunt in today's blog post. Hunt goes on to explain what's been happening since April 2019 and how the service will operate in the future.
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That's retarded. /s
Gay used to mean happy before it got hijacked.
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Gay used to mean happy before it got hijacked.
And I still use it as such. If someone's confused, I'll happily explain. But if someone's offended, why -- that's even better.
I was partially ostracized as a Nerd way back in High School, and don't see why I should stop now.
I had no idea... (Score:5, Interesting)
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I had no idea this was a one man operation. That's a truly dedicated individual.
He's extremely talented. The guys a machine for sure.
Re:Grow up? More like Die. (Score:4, Interesting)
Databrokers? (Score:3)
Perhaps the interested party was a databroker in disguise. They would have a lot of interest in this.
In the coming years, the general public will start to realise that the profiles made by advertising companies are being fed into the databrokers market, and that market will get a lot more attention and scrutiny. At that stage, databrokers will scramble for some goodwill shield to protect the data collection business. And this is one of the rare occasions that the general public might be understanding and forgiving of having so much sensitive data in one place.