How many people are there out there that are actually connected to the internet? You sort of realize that this is a really significant portion of online accounts. I sort of wonder if you’re doing the mental arithmetic here and going well, hang on a moment. Unique e-mail addresses is more around the four billion something. Of that 6.9 billion, fifteen of them are me. As an example, my own e-mail address has been seen fifteen times. TROY: This is 6.9 billion breached accounts. JACK: That is, there have been 6.9 billion e-mail addresses seen in data breaches in the last ten years or so. I wonder if it’s gonna be able to get much bigger. It was like 155 million records in there. TROY: Yeah, where to even begin? I guess one of the things that amazes me – I’m looking at the record count now having just loaded the Dubsmash data last night.
His site has truly changed how we view our account security. JACK: He’s been running this site since 2013, adding all the public and semi-public user account data breach details that he could find. I get through, grab that data, validate that it’s actually legitimate, then load it in, write it up, and publish it. Some people want either the notoriety or the fame, as it may be. Sometimes they ask for attribution as well. I said look, would you like if I Have I Been Pwned? They often send me a link to Mega. It’s often via an e-mail or a Twitter DM. TROY: Yeah, so a typical example pops up and says look, I’ve got the data. He collects all the breach data and puts it into his database and lets people search for their e-mail address to see if their account has been in a breach. Basically if there’s a data breach out there where the data is public, Troy knows about it. I run the data breach notification service Have I Been Pwned? I write some online training for people, and speak at events.
I am an Australian security researcher, I guess.
JACK: Let’s start out with tell us your name and what do you do.
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