Philippines joins Have I Been Pwned’s free government monitoring service

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines is the 46th government to join Have I Been Pwned’s (HIBP) free government service.

HIBP allows individuals to track if their emails have figured in a data breach or leak of sensitive data. The free government service allows governments to monitor and quickly track government domains against the data on HIBP.

Troy Hunt, who built HIBP, said in a blog post on Wednesday, June 3, that the Philippines’ National Computer Emergency Response Team, working alongside the Department of Information and Communications Technology, “now has access to monitor official government domains against the data in HIBP.”

Hunt said, “This gives their Cyber Threat Intel and Monitoring Section the ability to identify exposure across government email addresses and respond quickly when those accounts appear in new data breach.”

“This is precisely what the HIBP government service was built for: helping national cyber teams better understand credential exposure across their government domain space, monitor for compromised accounts on demand via API, and receive notifications when government domains are impacted by newly loaded breach data.” Hunt added. – Rappler.com