In this week’s episode (#130): we speak with security researcher Troy Hunt, founder of HaveIBeenPwned.com about his latest disclosure: a trove of more than 700 million online account credentials he’s calling “Collection #1.” Also we speak to Martin Hagen of the Norwegian device firm Tailit about how failing a security audit of the company’s GPS watch sparked a security make-over at the company.  Yes, you’ve been pwned! Troy Hunt made a name for himself calling attention to massive data leaks via his blog, troyhunt.com and – especially – haveibeenpwned.com, his online tool for checking to see if your credentials have been stolen. (They have.) But even by Troy’s standards, the trove of email addresses, passwords and other data he uncovered last week was impressive: a 773 million strong archive of credentials spanning some 12,000 separate files that he dubbed “Collection #1.”  A kind of “breach of breaches,” the collection represents […]

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