HIBP site owner falls for scam that leaks 16,000 records

Troy Hunt, the owner of Have I Been Pwned? (HIBP?, https://haveibeenpwned.com), has fallen for a phishing attack that led to 16,000 records of his newsletter subscribers being stolen. The security expert launched HIBP in 2013 as a way for people to check whether their email address and password were contained in mass data leaks. But Hunt himself has now been caught out by a scam, leaving him feeling "enormously frustrated". He received an email claiming to be from Mailchimp, which is the email s...