Have I Been Pwned
Have I Been Pwned appears in 93 analyzed articles across the measured technology press. Recent coverage is easing, counting every mention over recent months. This page shows the public snapshot: movement, coverage mix, recent sources, and what drove the latest change.
Compass measures press coverage, not Have I Been Pwned's product quality, business performance, or market value.
Counting every mention, coverage of Have I Been Pwned is easing — it appears in 93 analyzed articles across the technology press.
What Have I Been Pwned coverage is made of over time: story type, claim stage as reported, and press framing. This measures the coverage, not the product.
Across 48 classified coverage items, one item is 2.1 percentage points — read the shares below as the shape of a small sample, not as figures precise to the point.
Story type and claim stage are shares of the 48 classified coverage items in this window.
How to read this
The stream below stacks each month's coverage by the lens you choose: Tone (how the press frames the story — promotional, skeptical, critical, or neutral), Story type (launches, funding, lawsuits, partnerships…), or Stage — how far the reported claim has gone: speculation → announcement → launch → results.
Taller bands mean more coverage that month; the dots beneath mark notable non‑neutral events. Every signal is sourced and dated.
How this is counted — why the article numbers differ
93 articles mention Have I Been Pwned across the corpus. The coverage make-up above is measured on the 47 of them that were read into dated, classified coverage items — and one article can produce more than one item, because story type, claim stage and framing are read separately.
- Crooks Behind Manchester Airports Group Hack Leaked Data of 8.8 Million PeopleSecurity Affairs
- ShinyHunters called cancer diagnostics biz and tricked staffers into giving them access. Now they've dumped 10.9M email addressesThe Register
- Infosec expert: Paidwork users' data pwned after 23M-record database dumped onlineThe Register
As of 7 Oct 2026 · corpus coverage 94% · 356,656 articles. Correlational & coverage-limited.
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