Weekly Update 457 – Source: www.troyhunt.com

Firstly, apologies for the annoying clipping in the audio. I use a Rode VideoMic that’s a shotgun style that plugs straight into the iPhone and it’s usually pretty solid. It was also solid when I tested it again now, just recording a video into the phone, so I don’t know if this was connection related or what, but I was in no position to troubleshoot once the stream had started, unfortunately.

Moving on, it’s been a ridiculously hectic week of bacb-to-back events then to top it off, we’ve bee dealing with crazy traffic volumes on HIBP:

Well, that explains the traffic: 2.46M visitors to Have I Been Pwned in 24 hours, mostly from Google searches. The inbound traffic is near unprecedented, with only the Collection 1 credential stuffing list in Jan 2019 and the Facebook scrape in April 2021 coming close. pic.twitter.com/li7qvfy9tk

— Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) June 21, 2025

Anyway, you just can’t predict these things, hope you enjoy this week’s video regardless.

References

1. Sponsored by: 1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device.
2. If you want to follow along with travels, most of the pics I post these days are going to a public Facebook account (such is the fragmented social media world today)
3. Catch me in Rome next week for the DotNetCode Italy meetup (that’ll be the last public event of the tour)
4. Was it really 16B passwords? (obviously this story got huge traction, let’s see what the data says)