Have I Been Pwned code base goes open source as it expands

By Larry Jaffee for SC Media
Tuesday, August 11, 2020

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After a failed attempt at a sale, Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) founder Troy Hunt decided to open source the code base for the sprawling database, which has become unwieldy for his singular stewardship.

Ilia Kolochenko, founder and CEO of ImmuniWeb, credited Hunt with improving the “modern internet by attracting everyone’s attention to the skyrocketing problem of data breaches and leaks affecting everyone in our society.”

Kolochenko cited the Open Bug Bounty project as a community-based precedent achieving more success than many commercial crowd-security testing companies.

“It’s still a bit unclear who within the emerging HITB community will have access to the data of billions of stolen credentials and for which purposes,” he said. In some states, such access may be unlawful and criminally punishable under a fairly broad spectrum of circumstances. Read Full Article