The Biggest Data Breach Archive On the Internet Is For Sale

'Troy Hunt, the owner and founder of the well-known and respected data
breach notification website "Have I Been Pwned," announced today that
he's actively looking for a buyer.

"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," Hunt wrote. "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." Motherboard reports:

Over the years, Have I Been Pwned has become the repository for data
breaches on the internet, a place where users can search for their
email address and see whether they have been part of a data breach.
It's now also a service where people can sign up to get notified
whenever their accounts get breached. It's perhaps the most useful,
free, cybersecurity service in the world. Hunt said he's already had
informal conversations with some organizations that might be
interested in buying the service. Hunt said he's engaged the financial
consulting firm KPMG to look for a buyer.

In the post, Hunt shared some staggering numbers that explain just how
big Have I Been Pwned has become: 8 billion breached records, nearly 3
million people subscribed to notifications, who have been emailed
about a breach 7 million times, 150,000 unique visitors to the site on
a normal day, 10 million on an abnormal day. Regardless of who buys
the site, Hunt made a series of commitments on the future of Have I
Been Pwned: searches should remain free for consumers, the platform
should expand and grow, and, finally, he wants to stay involved in
some capacity. '

-- source: https://it.slashdot.org/story/19/06/11/2017231

Cheers, Peter
-- 
Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, NZ
+64 (7) 858-5174
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/
http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
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