Have I Been Pwned?

"HIBP" redirects here. For the school in Brooklyn, see Hebrew Institute of Boro Park.
Have I Been Pwned?
An apostrophe, a semicolon, and two hyphens, followed by the text "have i been pwned" and a question mark. The text is in black, and is surrounded by a black rectangular border with rounded corners.
Screenshot
The homepage of haveibeenpwned.com. The website features white text on blue and black backgrounds. Prominently centered is the site's logo in white. Below the logo is a search box labeled "email address or username" with a button beside it labeled "pwned?". Below the search box is a series of statistics about the size of the website's database. Below that is a list of the top ten largest breaches.
Type of site
Internet security
Created byTroy Hunt
URLhaveibeenpwned.com
CommercialYes
RegistrationOptional
Users2 million verified email subscribers (2018)[1]
Launched4 December 2013; 10 years ago (2013-12-04)
Current statusOnline

Have I Been Pwned?[a] (HIBP; stylized in all lowercase as "‘;--have i been pwned?") is a website that allows Internet users to check whether their personal data has been compromised by data breaches. The service collects and analyzes hundreds of database dumps and pastes containing information about billions of leaked accounts, and allows users to search for their own information by entering their username or email address. Users can also sign up to be notified if their email address appears in future dumps. The site has been widely touted as a valuable resource for Internet users wishing to protect their own security and privacy.[3][4] Have I Been Pwned? was created by security expert Troy Hunt on 4 December 2013.

As of June 2019, Have I Been Pwned? averages around one hundred and sixty thousand daily visitors, the site has nearly three million active email subscribers and contains records of almost eight billion accounts.[5]

  1. ^ "We're Baking Have I Been Pwned into Firefox and 1Password". troyhunt.com. 25 June 2018.
  2. ^ Merriam-Webster: What Does 'Pwn' Mean? And how do you say it?
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference ZDNetHowTo was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference BizInsiderHIBP was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ "Project Svalbard: The Future of Have I Been Pwned". Troy Hunt. 11 June 2019. Retrieved 11 June 2019.


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