Troy Hunt

Troy Hunt

Hunt in 2010
Born Troy A. Hunt
Residence Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
Citizenship Australia
Known for
Spouse(s) Kylie Hunt
Awards
  • Microsoft MVP for Developer Security (2011–present)
  • Microsoft Regional Director (2016–present)
Website troyhunt.com

Troy Hunt is an Australian web security expert. He is known for creating the data breach search service Have I Been Pwned?,[1] as well as for authoring several popular security-related courses on Pluralsight.[2] He also is the creator of ASafaWeb, a tool that performs automated security analysis on ASP.NET websites. Starting in 2011, Hunt was named a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in Developer Security,[3] and was recognized as a Microsoft MVP of the Year in 2011.[4] He was also named a Microsoft Regional Director in 2016.[5]

Hunt speaking about application security at OWASP's AppSec EU conference in 2015.

Data breaches

As part of his work administering the Have I Been Pwned? website, Hunt is frequently involved in the publication of data breaches, and is often cited by journalists as a data breach expert.

In August 2015, following the Ashley Madison data breach, Hunt received many emails from Ashley Madison members asking for help. He criticized the company for doing a poor job informing its userbase.[6]

In February 2016, children's toy maker VTech, who had suffered a major data breach months earlier, updated its terms of service to absolve itself of wrongdoing in the event of future breaches. Hunt, who had added the data from VTech's breach to the databases of Have I Been Pwned?, published a blog post harshly criticizing VTech's new policy, calling it "grossly negligent."[7] He later removed the VTech breach from the database, citing that only two people besides himself had access to the data and wishing to reduce the chance of its spread.[8]

In February 2017, Hunt published details of vulnerabilties in the Internet-connected children's toy, CloudPets, which had allowed access to 820,000 user records as well as 2.2 million audio files belonging to those users.[9][10]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Coz, Joseph (10 March 2016). "The Rise of ‘Have I Been Pwned?’, an Invaluable Resource in the Hacking Age". Vice. Retrieved 18 March 2016.
  2. ↑ "Troy Hunt - Ethical Hacking Author - Pluralsight". Pluralsight. Retrieved 20 September 2016.
  3. ↑ "Most Valuable Professional: Troy Hunt". Microsoft. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
  4. ↑ Microsoft MVP Award Program Blog (7 March 2012). "Congratulations MVPs of the Year—Two for the Third Time!". Microsoft. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
  5. ↑ Hunt, Troy (2016-03-03). "Microsoft Regional Director". Troy Hunt. Retrieved 2017-01-10.
  6. ↑ Price, Rob (24 August 2015). "Ashley Madison not communicating with customers: Troy Hunt". Business Insider. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
  7. ↑ Murdock, Jason (9 February 2016). "VTech hack: Microsoft security researcher Troy Hunt slams 'grossly negligent' security approach". International Business Times. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
  8. ↑ Hunt, Troy (8 April 2016). "Have I been pwned, opting out, VTech and general privacy things". Retrieved 28 June 2016.
  9. ↑ "Children's messages in CloudPets data breach". BBC News. 2017-02-28. Retrieved 2017-08-06.
  10. ↑ Hern, Alex (2017-02-28). "CloudPets stuffed toys leak details of half a million users". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2017-08-06.


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