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martyb writes:

After six years as a solo effort, Troy Hunt has found that he can no longer keep up with all the data breaches in his spare time. He's also aware that he has become a single-point-of-failure for an increasingly important service. He is, therefore, looking to sell his site https://haveibeenpwned.com/. News of this was relayed to users in a blog post and covered by threatpost in Troy Hunt Looks to Sell Have I Been Pwned:

Citing overwhelming demands on his time, Troy Hunt is looking for a buyer for his site, Have I Been Pwned (HIBP).

HIBP offers a free service for consumers wanting to know if their user names and passwords have been compromised in a data breach; it also offers commercial services that include alerts for members of identity-theft programs, enabling infosec companies to provide services to their customers, protecting large online assets from credential stuffing attacks, preventing fraudulent financial transactions, and giving governments and law enforcement assistance with investigations.

Hunt has been running the site for six years, and said in a posting on Tuesday that the sheer amount of breached information out there needing to be loaded into the database has accelerated to the point of outstripping one person's capability to keep up with it.

He noted that starting in January, with the massive Collection #1 data dump, his responsibilities in keeping HIBP afloat have spiked. This has led to him having to cut back on other things, like maintaining his social media presence on Twitter and writing technical blog posts. Even so, he's continued to travel and speak globally, upload weekly videos, and participate in industry and media events – resulting in something "very close to burnout," he said, as he tried to keep up with it all plus have a family life.

Here's hoping he can find an organization that will be as good a steward of the information as he has been.

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