Have I been pwned?
If you never checked out this website, I highly recommend you take a look at it.
So have I been?
Pwned is a website where you can plug in the email address and see if it's been part of a data breach.
And this website is by Troy Hunt, who is a very well known security researcher.
So the way it works is they have a large database here.
So 276, 277 phone websites, about 5 billion phone accounts, almost 70,000 pages and almost 75 million
paced accounts is comprises this website.
So in order to operate, it's really simple.
All you need to do is put in any email address that you want to check out.
So for this example, I'm going to use one of my email addresses, dispo games at gmail.com, and I'm
going to click the phone button here.
So if has been part of a data breach this Bonaparte's going to turn red.
It's going to say, oh, no pound and then it's going to tell you how many breaches has been a part
of.
So as you can see here, it's been part of two breaches.
So I'm going to keep scrolling down here.
Down here is going to tell you what websites it was part of.
So in 2013, we could see it was part of Adobe Breach, where 153 million Adobe accounts were were compromised.
If I keep going down here, it's going to be it's going to show you the compromised data.
In this case, it was email addresses, password hints, passwords and usernames.
And again, it was part of a Dropbox breach in mid 2012.
In this case it was email addresses and passwords.
They got leaked.
So in both cases, those are pretty horrific breaches.
So fortunately for me, I've changed the password a couple of times, so it's relatively safe.
So you might be wondering why I'm telling you about this website.
So, for one, if you never use this, I highly recommend you just put your email address in there or
email addresses, make sure your accounts are safe.
It's just really good practice.
But as far as Olsen goes, you might be wondering what this has to do with it.
So to give you a small story, a while back, I was doing an ocean search on somebody didn't have a
lot of information on them.
I had an email address and I had a name, but I wasn't sure what other sites you were part of.
So I decided to take their email address.
I put it in to have I've been pwned and the results were actually pretty surprising and it found websites
that that particular account was tied to that I had no idea.
Even when I did a Google search, it didn't come up.
So I found out they had a minecraft account.
I found out they had a pastebin account and a few other websites and using that information and their
email address, I was actually able to find some pretty important information.
That was part of my investigation.
And it was again, it was really simple.
I just put their email address in and they just happened to be part of some data breaches.
So again, this is have I been phoned and it can be found that have I been P.W. and Edengay.com.
And again, if you're researching on Target and you have email address, do your Google Google searches.
And also I would recommend try putting it.
Have I been phoned?
You know, it doesn't hurt to run that extra check.
Maybe you'll find a different of me.
You maybe you'll find additional information that didn't come up before.
So, again, have I been phoned?