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 (pictured below) 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 service he uses to send his newsletter (www.troyhunt.com) to subscribers.
The email said: “Your account has been flagged due to a spam complaint, and as a result, you are temporarily unable to send emails until this issue is resolved” (1 in our screenshot right).
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