I at all times used to joke that when individuals used Have I Been Pwned (HIBP), we successfully stated “Oh no – you’ve got been pwned! Uh, good luck!” and left it at that. That was fantastic when it was a pet venture utilized by individuals who dwell in the same world to me, but it surely did not do so much for the on a regular basis of us simply studying in regards to the scary world of knowledge breaches. Partnering with 1Password in 2018 helped, however the impression of knowledge breaches goes effectively past the publicity of passwords, so a few months in the past, I wrote about discovering new companions to assist victims “after the breach”, Right this moment, I am very comfortable to welcome the primary such companion, Truyu.
I alluded to Truyu being a wonderful instance of a possible companion within the aforementioned weblog put up, so their inclusion on this program ought to come as no shock, however let me embellish additional. In truth, let’s begin with one thing very topical as of the second of posting:
New e-mail from @Qantas simply now: “we consider your private info was accessed throughout the cyber incident”. They positively deserve credit score for early communication. pic.twitter.com/dTLlvI0Byq
— Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) July 2, 2025
It is pure coincidence that Qantas’ incident coincides with the onboarding of an Aussie id safety service, but it surely additionally makes it all of the extra related. My very own private circumstances are an ideal instance: apparently, my identify, e-mail tackle, telephone quantity, date of start, and frequent flyer quantity at the moment are within the fingers of a hacking group not precisely identified for shielding individuals’s privateness. In the sooner weblog put up about onboarding new companions, I confirmed how Truyu had despatched me early alerts when my id information was used to join a few completely different monetary providers. If that occurs because of the Qantas breach, no less than I’ll learn about it early.
The introduction of Truyu as the primary of a number of upcoming companions heralds the primary time we have tailor-made content material based mostly on the geolocation of the person. What meaning is that relying on the place you might be on the earth, you may even see one thing completely different to this:
I am seeing Truyu on the Dropbox breach web page as a result of I am in Australia, and for those who’re not, you will not. You may have your individual footer with your individual nation, which relies on Cloudflare’s IP geolocation headers. In time, relying on the place you might be on the earth, you will see extra content material tailor-made particularly for you the place it is related to your location. That is not simply product placements both, we’ll be including different sources I will share extra about shortly.
Placing one other model identify on HIBP isn’t one thing I take evenly, as is evidenced by the actual fact that is solely the second time I’ve executed this in almost 12 years. Truyu is there as a result of it is a product I genuinely consider gives worth to information breach victims and on this case, one I additionally use myself. And for what it is price, I’ve additionally hung out with the Truyu workforce in individual on a number of events and have solely constructive issues to say about them. That, in my e book, goes a great distance.
So, that is our new companion, and so they’ve arrived at simply the right time. Now I am off to leap on a Qantas flight, want me luck!
