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Troy Hunt

@troyhunt
163 posts
2026-01-13
Reviewing this data, it certainly doesn't stack up to the hyperbolic headlines. Definitely no sensitive data, and “only” 6.2M unique email addresses. Most rows just have intentionally public data: username, ID and name.
2026-01-13 View on X
The Verge

Instagram denies a breach and says it fixed an issue that let an “external party” send password reset emails, after a report that 17.5M users' data was exposed

2026-01-12
Reviewing this data, it certainly doesn't stack up to the hyperbolic headlines. Definitely no sensitive data, and “only” 6.2M unique email addresses. Most rows just have intentionally public data: username, ID and name.
2026-01-12 View on X
The Verge

Instagram denies a breach and says it fixed an issue that let an “external party” send password reset emails, after a report that 17.5M users' data was exposed

If you're one of the many, many people who received a password reset email from Instagram the other day, the company says it fixed the issue.

2026-01-11
So the claim appears to be related to scraping a leaky API, but the data is well beyond what you'd expect to see returned. And I'm seeing multiple people claim a sudden uptick in password reset attempts https://cyberpress.org/...
2026-01-11 View on X
Engadget

Malwarebytes: a 2024 Instagram data breach exposed information on 17.5 million users, including emails, phone numbers, and physical addresses

As spotted by Malwarebytes, the alleged leak includes usernames, email addresses, phone numbers and more.  —  If you received a bunch …

2026-01-10
So the claim appears to be related to scraping a leaky API, but the data is well beyond what you'd expect to see returned. And I'm seeing multiple people claim a sudden uptick in password reset attempts https://cyberpress.org/...
2026-01-10 View on X
Engadget

Malwarebytes: a 2024 Instagram data breach exposed information on 17.5 million users, including emails, phone numbers, and physical addresses

As spotted by Malwarebytes, the alleged leak includes usernames, email addresses, phone numbers and more.  —  If you received a bunch …

2025-11-27
Dammit! Just got a data breach notification from @OpenAI related to @mixpanel: [image]
2025-11-27 View on X
OpenAI

OpenAI says a Mixpanel security incident on November 9 let a hacker access API account names and more, but not ChatGPT data, and it terminated its Mixpanel use

Transparency is important to us, so we want to inform you about a recent security incident at Mixpanel, a data analytics provider OpenAI used …

2025-11-13
We had the privilege of spending time with many of the folks involved in the latest season of Operation Endgame while in The Hague this week. The agencies involved in these actions are extremely well organised and coordinated and whilst this is now the third round of Endgame
2025-11-13 View on X
BleepingComputer

Europol, Eurojust, and others dismantle 1,025 servers used by the Rhadamanthys infostealer, VenomRAT, and Elysium botnet, in the latest Operation Endgame phase

Law enforcement authorities from nine countries have taken down over 1,000 servers used by the Rhadamanthys infolstealer …

2025-07-26
Even my 13-year old daughter immediately saw the problem as I explained this app to her: “so people can post photos of other people without their permission and gossip about them?” The whole premise of this is out of step with modern views on privacy... and now they're breached.
2025-07-26 View on X
NBC News

Tea says hackers accessed a database from more than two years ago, leaking 72,000 images, including 13,000 verification photos and images of government IDs

The viral app requires new users to take selfies, which it says it deletes after review.  —  Hackers have breached the Tea app …

Digging deeper, this is just layers of cluster fuck: a service for non-consensual sharing of pics and defamation requiring selfies and ID docs of participants ostensibly for their “safety” leaked and abused by parties now extensively sharing and shaming them. Ugh.
2025-07-26 View on X
NBC News

Tea says hackers accessed a database from more than two years ago, leaking 72,000 images, including 13,000 verification photos and images of government IDs

The viral app requires new users to take selfies, which it says it deletes after review.  —  Hackers have breached the Tea app …

2025-07-11
The @NCA_UK have picked up 4 people in relation to the recent retail hacks, most of them still just teenagers https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/ ...
2025-07-11 View on X
BBC

UK police arrest four people, a 20-year-old woman and three men aged 17 to 19, in connection to the M&S and Co-op hacks that began in mid-April and caused havoc

Dunno, not making a particular point, other than that I've been around for ages.  Don't cause havoc kids, at least not in these kinds of ways.  [embedded post] Eric Geller / @ericj...

2025-07-10
The @NCA_UK have picked up 4 people in relation to the recent retail hacks, most of them still just teenagers https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/ ...
2025-07-10 View on X
BBC

UK police arrest four people, a 20-year-old woman and three men aged 17 to 19, in connection to the M&S and Co-op hacks that began in mid-April and caused havoc

Four people have been arrested by police investigating the cyber-attacks that have caused havoc at M&S and the Co-op.

2024-10-10
@haveibeenpwned Let me share more on the chronology of this: 30 Sep: Someone sends me the breach, but I'm travelling and didn't realise the significance 5 Oct: I get a chance to look at it - whoa! 6 Oct: I get in contact with someone at IA and send the data, advising it's our goal to load
2024-10-10 View on X
BleepingComputer

A threat actor hacked the Internet Archive and stole a user authentication database with 31M unique records; a DDoS attack took the site offline on October 9

Internet Archive's “The Wayback Machine” has suffered a data breach after a threat actor compromised the website and stole …

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.
2024-10-10 View on X
BleepingComputer

A threat actor hacked the Internet Archive and stole a user authentication database with 31M unique records; a DDoS attack took the site offline on October 9

Internet Archive's “The Wayback Machine” has suffered a data breach after a threat actor compromised the website and stole …

2024-08-26
This one isn't going to fly: “It is absurd to claim that a platform or its owner are responsible for abuse of that platform.”
2024-08-26 View on X
Politico

French President Emmanuel Macron says the government was not involved in the arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov and “this is in no way a political decision”

French president condemns “false information” as Pavel Durov's detention in Paris triggers global outcry.

2024-07-20
The global scope of this is *MASSIVE*. Germany:
2024-07-20 View on X
The Verge

BSODs hit thousands of Windows PCs due to “a defect” in an update from CrowdStrike, taking banks, airlines, and more businesses offline; Microsoft is aware

or CrowdStrike Microsoft : HELPFUL LINKS  —  Get notified of outages that impact you  —  Building reliable applications on Azure The Record : IT teams scramble to recover from Crow...

If you're watching this unfold and aren't unfamiliar with the name “CrowdStrike”, they're a *massive* player in the security space and have billions of dollars of annual revenue. Their products include “EDR”, which is endpoint detection and response. Think of it as antivirus.
2024-07-20 View on X
The Verge

BSODs hit thousands of Windows PCs due to “a defect” in an update from CrowdStrike, taking banks, airlines, and more businesses offline; Microsoft is aware

or CrowdStrike Microsoft : HELPFUL LINKS  —  Get notified of outages that impact you  —  Building reliable applications on Azure The Record : IT teams scramble to recover from Crow...

Just an important point on this as I'm seeing some misunderstandings: this is not a “Microsoft outage” (disclosure: I don't work there or speak for them, Regional Directors are totally independent), it's a CrowdStrike issue impacting Microsoft PCs.
2024-07-20 View on X
The Verge

BSODs hit thousands of Windows PCs due to “a defect” in an update from CrowdStrike, taking banks, airlines, and more businesses offline; Microsoft is aware

or CrowdStrike Microsoft : HELPFUL LINKS  —  Get notified of outages that impact you  —  Building reliable applications on Azure The Record : IT teams scramble to recover from Crow...

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: [image]
2024-07-20 View on X
Wall Street Journal

A profile of CrowdStrike, founded in 2011 and used by 300 companies in the Fortune 500; Gartner: CrowdStrike has ~15% of the global security software market

The little-known company is very popular in Corporate America, contributing to the severity of the global IT outage

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: [image]
2024-07-20 View on X
The Verge

BSODs hit thousands of Windows PCs due to “a defect” in an update from CrowdStrike, taking banks, airlines, and more businesses offline; Microsoft is aware

or CrowdStrike Microsoft : HELPFUL LINKS  —  Get notified of outages that impact you  —  Building reliable applications on Azure The Record : IT teams scramble to recover from Crow...

Just an important point on this as I'm seeing some misunderstandings: this is not a “Microsoft outage” (disclosure: I don't work there or speak for them, Regional Directors are totally independent), it's a CrowdStrike issue impacting Microsoft PCs.
2024-07-20 View on X
Wall Street Journal

A profile of CrowdStrike, founded in 2011 and used by 300 companies in the Fortune 500; Gartner: CrowdStrike has ~15% of the global security software market

The little-known company is very popular in Corporate America, contributing to the severity of the global IT outage

If you're watching this unfold and aren't unfamiliar with the name “CrowdStrike”, they're a *massive* player in the security space and have billions of dollars of annual revenue. Their products include “EDR”, which is endpoint detection and response. Think of it as antivirus.
2024-07-20 View on X
Wall Street Journal

A profile of CrowdStrike, founded in 2011 and used by 300 companies in the Fortune 500; Gartner: CrowdStrike has ~15% of the global security software market

The little-known company is very popular in Corporate America, contributing to the severity of the global IT outage