# The "Have I been pwned" API rate limit has been brought forward - here's why

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- Host: [troyhunt.com](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/troyhunt.com/)
- Saved: September 5, 2016 (2016-09-05T09:30:14Z)
- Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/aeaa9caa5df8/
- JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/aeaa9caa5df8.json

## From the page (probably an excerpt, not Jamie's words)

Three weeks ago today, I wrote about implementing a rate limit on the Have I been pwned (HIBP) API and the original plan was to have it begin a week from today. I want to talk more about why the rate

## Facts

- Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/)

## Same host

- [Going dark: online privacy and anonymity for normal people](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/d634e2687ebc/) (troyhunt.com, May 20, 2016)
- [Troy Hunt: I've Just Launched "Pwned Passwords" V2 With Half a Billion Passwords for Download](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/0a2a00101c85/) (troyhunt.com, February 22, 2018)
- [Troy Hunt: The Legitimisation of Have I Been Pwned](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/94233c45b7f0/) (troyhunt.com, March 27, 2018)
- [Troy Hunt: Serverless to the Max: Doing Big Things for Small Dollars with Cloudflare Workers and Azure Functions](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/e2a16f70d31d/) (troyhunt.com, September 8, 2018)
- [Troy Hunt: The 773 Million Record "Collection #1" Data Breach](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/9433422d224c/) (troyhunt.com, January 17, 2019)

## Saved the same week

- [It’s a boy thing](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/71790df4b63c/) (1843magazine.com, September 5, 2016)
- [SaaS Companies Beware The Slow Ramp of Death – Seeking Wisdom (by Drift)](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/dc5fa3948cd9/) (seekingwisdom.io, September 6, 2016)
- [Outage that led to mass cancellation of flights cost Delta $100M - StarTribune.com](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/a557f85e8ebb/) (startribune.com, September 6, 2016)
- [API First Transformation at Etsy – Concurrency](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/2a2424d5d6b1/) (codeascraft.com, September 7, 2016)
- [Listening to your commitments](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/3370f904f270/) (next-action.eu, September 7, 2016)

## Elsewhere

- Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.troyhunt.com/content-images-2016-09-a-one-week-traffic-snapshot-1-png/