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> The questions that are harder to answer (and again, I know these will come up based on prior experience), are what the password is that was exposed, what the
by tripdout 2y ago
> The questions that are harder to answer (and again, I know these will come up based on prior experience), are what the password is that was exposed, what the website it appeared next to was and, indeed, if it appeared next to a website at all or just alongside an email address. Right at the beginning of this project more than a decade ago, I made the decision not to load the data that would answer these questions due to the risk it posed to individuals and by extension, the risk to my ability to continue running HIBP. We were reminded of how important this decision was earlier in the year when a service aggregating data breaches left the whole thing exposed and put everyone in there at even more risk.
Seems it's a design decision not to.
- m4tthumphrey 2y agoYeh I figured it was a choice, but thought maybe Troy could make it so we could only see the data that relates to us, maybe by sending a verification email, similar to how he verifies domain searches.
- jamesboehmer 2y agoI think the point is that building any kind of tool to enable this is surface area for an attack. The design choice is to remove any possibility of that happening at all.
- noja 2y ago> Seems it's a design decision not to. Sure, but it leaves the users in a worse place.