Mastodawn

Two billion email addresses were exposed

https://www.troyhunt.com/2-billion-email-addresses-were-exposed-and-we-indexed-them-all-in-have-i-been-pwned/

#HackerNews #emailbreach #dataexposure #cybersecurity #privacy #awareness

2 Billion Email Addresses Were Exposed, and We Indexed Them All in Have I Been Pwned

I hate hyperbolic news headlines about data breaches, but for the "2 Billion Email Addresses" headline to be hyperbolic, it'd need to be exaggerated or overstated - and it isn't. It's rounded up from the more precise number of 1,957,476,021 unique email addresses, but other than that,

Troy Hunt

Poetry News Jul 16, 2023

Microsoft conceals role
In email breach scandal fears
Hiding away truth

#microsoft #emailbreach #cybersecurity #haiku #poetry

https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/07/microsoft-takes-pains-to-obscure-role-in-0-days-that-caused-email-breach/

Microsoft takes pains to obscure role in 0-days that caused email breach

Critics also decry Microsoft's "pay-to-play" monitoring that detected intrusions.

Ars Technica