
Weekly Update 517: Cyber Ransoms
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Ransom Payments, Legalities, Reporting, Class Actions (and Everything Else) https://www.troyhunt.com/weekly-update-517/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

ShinyHunters Ramping Back Up; New Breaches: Inter-Con Security, Exact Sciences, Brinks Home; The Breach Pipeline https://www.troyhunt.com/weekly-update-516/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Levelling up the Coffee Game with Customised Synesso MVP Hydra; HIBP Roadmap - What Are We Missing? https://www.troyhunt.com/weekly-update-515/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This Week in Data Breaches: Origin Energy, OpenAI & Hugging Face, Suno; Whatever Happened to ShinyHunters? https://www.troyhunt.com/weekly-update-514/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Claude + UniFi MCP + Home Assistant MCP + Pi-Hole API = Success? https://www.troyhunt.com/weekly-update-513/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Home to Aussie Sunshine; Locked Out by Failed IoT Lock; The Post-holiday Tech Fixes https://www.troyhunt.com/weekly-update-512/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Spain, Italy and Morocco Travels; Swimming Pools, Pee & Data Breaches; I'm Pwned Again https://www.troyhunt.com/weekly-update-511/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We're talking passkeys and Claude Code https://www.troyhunt.com/weekly-update-510/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We're Building a Home Cinema from the Ground up - Have We Gone Overboard?! https://www.troyhunt.com/weekly-update-509/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Back on the IoT Bandwagon: Doorlocks With Unifi Access, Finally Making the AI LPR Work, I Still Hate All Light Switches https://www.troyhunt.com/weekly-update-508/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Have I Been Pwned Passes 1,000 Data Breaches: Join Me for a Commemorative Beer 🍺 https://www.troyhunt.com/weekly-update-507/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Breach Week: 7-Eleven; Ameriprise; Mytheresa; Kemper; Charter; The Data Breach Disclosure Lag; Welcoming the Bhutanese Government https://www.troyhunt.com/weekly-update-506/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What Ever Happened to ShinyHunters; Bruce Video Explainer; IoT'ing a New House Build - Locks, Switches, Solar & More https://www.troyhunt.com/weekly-update-505/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Weekly update is up! Crime Pays: The Instructure Ransom; Another Week of Breaches; New Govs Onboarded: Costa Rica, Bangladesh and The Bahamas https://www.troyhunt.com/weekly-update-504/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The rapidly escalating Instructure Canvas data breach and website takedown https://www.troyhunt.com/weekly-update-503/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Current State of Breaches: Vishing, Social Engineering, ShinyHunters, Salesforce, Extortion and Massive Troves of Data https://www.troyhunt.com/weekly-update-502/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Writing a Robophobia Policy; This Week in Breaches; NDC Sydney: Pwned with Purpose https://www.troyhunt.com/weekly-update-501/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Episode 500! A Look Back at 500 Weeks of Vids, Pwning, and Life at HIBP HQ with Charlotte https://www.troyhunt.com/weekly-update-500/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Introducing "Bruce the Bot", our 51c per day OpenClaw-powered humanoid-assisted Zendesk AI agent for Have I Been Pwned https://www.troyhunt.com/weekly-update-499/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Challenges of Running Your Own Business; Here's All the New Features We Just Launched on Have I Been Pwned https://www.troyhunt.com/weekly-update-498/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Join Me in Investigating Today's Data Breaches With the PwnedClaw, the OpenClaw Agentic AI Bot Doing My Legwork https://www.troyhunt.com/weekly-update-497/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bayd ner Breach; Aura Breach; Building PwnedClaw Agentic AI on a Mac Mini to do Data Breach Stuff https://www.troyhunt.com/weekly-update-496/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Behind the scenes of some of Have I Been Pwned's most important architectural components https://www.troyhunt.com/weekly-update-495/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Breachapalooza: Odido, KomikoAI, Quitbro, Lovora, Provecho; The Hunger Rush Situation; I Finally Got Age-Checked https://www.troyhunt.com/weekly-update-494/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Odido Breach and Leaks; The Incentives and Economics for Paying Ransoms; Where Did the Canadian Tire Data Come From? https://www.troyhunt.com/weekly-update-493/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Surge of New Breaches; The Figure Breach Only Impacted "Limited" Files; 80% of Aussie Adults Don't Need ID for Social Media https://www.troyhunt.com/weekly-update-492/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

ESP32, E10G30-F2 and Other Nerd Stuff; Substack, ANPS and Toy Battles Data Breaches; Sneak Peek at Cool Stuff Coming to HIBP https://www.troyhunt.com/weekly-update-491/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Home Sweet Home; First Stream From the New PC; Law Enforcement and Cybercrime Prevention; The Betterment Data Breach https://www.troyhunt.com/weekly-update-490/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I'm in Hong Kong; The Sound Cloud Data Breach; The Panera Bread Breach; [Clawd|Molt]Bot / OpenClaw https://www.troyhunt.com/weekly-update-489/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Happy Australia Day! I'm Back From the Arctic; The Under Armour Breach; The UK, Under 16s and Social Media https://www.troyhunt.com/weekly-update-488/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A Fully Automated Explanation of "AI Slop" - Why the Internet Thinks Everything Made by Computers Is Now Wet Garbage https://www.troyhunt.com/weekly-update-487/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Weekly update is up! I'm in Oslo; The WhiteDate Breach; The Instagram Scraped Data (and password resets) https://www.troyhunt.com/weekly-update-486/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Live from Dubai with Scott Helme! My Changing View on Sponsorships; Scott on Moving to Dubai; On the Overhead of Support https://www.troyhunt.com/weekly-update-485/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Upcoming Travel; Reaching IoT Shelly Nirvana; Physical Security Meets Digital with Ubiquiti; Sponsored by Malwarebytes https://www.troyhunt.com/weekly-update-484/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

IoT all the things! A full walkthrough of all the connected stuff, warts and all. Sponsored by 1Password. https://www.troyhunt.com/weekly-update-483/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Spicers Pwned (and visited); 630 Million Passwords via the FBI; Qantas Breach Spam https://www.troyhunt.com/weekly-update-482/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It's the Have I Been Pwned 12th Birthday Special with Charlotte! Sponsored by Report URI https://www.troyhunt.com/weekly-update-481/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Australian Under 16 Social Media Ban: Parenting Responsibilities, Government Control, Privacy and Identity Verification; Sponsored by Report URI https://www.troyhunt.com/weekly-update-480/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Record (?) HIBP Traffic Month; The Week in Breaches; IoT Water Meter Reader with Home Assistant and AI; Sponsored by 1Password https://www.troyhunt.com/weekly-update-479/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Home Sweet Home; Lessons From Processing Those 2B Email Addresses; I Spoke at Europol in The Hague; Operation Endgame 3.0; Sponsored by Malwarebytes https://www.troyhunt.com/weekly-update-478/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I'm in Belgium! Here's everything that went wrong with loading 2 billion breached email addresses… Sponsored by Report URI https://www.troyhunt.com/weekly-update-477/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I'm in Norway; Loading 1,957,476,021 Breached Email Addresses is Hard; Qantas Data Continues to Spread; PC Build Thread; Sponsored by Report URI https://www.troyhunt.com/weekly-update-476/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Impending Travel; PC Build Spec Thread; The Synthient Threat Data; Pwned Passwords Passes 17 Billion Monthly Requests; Sponsroed by Report URI https://www.troyhunt.com/weekly-update-475/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It's New PC Build Time; The Qantas Breach (and Injunction); The Vietnam Air, Hello Cake and Prosper Breaches; Sponsroed by 1Password https://www.troyhunt.com/weekly-update-474/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Cyber-Geddon-Breacha-Palooza: Salesforce, Qantas, FedEx, Toyota, Disney, UPS and More; Thoughts, Prayers and Data Breaches; Sponsored by Malwarebytes https://www.troyhunt.com/weekly-update-473/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Breaches of the Week; Welcoming CERN to HIBP; Latest Pilot Jobs and HomeRefill Data Breaches; Brainstorming the Breach Pipeline; Sponsored by Report URI https://www.troyhunt.com/weekly-update-472/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Have I Been Pwned Demos: Domain Searches and the Breached Account API; French Data Breaches: Bouygues Telecom and Cultura; Sponsored by Oh Dear https://www.troyhunt.com/weekly-update-471/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

ParkMobile's MASSIVE $1 Class Action Payout; Milj data Data Breach; FreeOnes Data Breach; My House Talks Like Me; Sponsored by 1Password https://www.troyhunt.com/weekly-update-470/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Building the Prusa Core One; Pwned Passwords Passes 16B Monthly Requests; Going Deeper Down the IoT Rabbit Hole https://www.troyhunt.com/weekly-update-469/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A Week of School, Cyber and Food in Singapore https://www.troyhunt.com/weekly-update-467/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.