> You know why it's called "Have I Been Pwned"? Try coming up with almost any conceivable normal sounding English name and getting a .com domain for it. Good luck!

Maybe he's addressing a slightly different topic, but I remember hearing/seeing "Pwned" long, LONG before this.

I remember in the usenet/bbs days "pwn" was just a typo of "own" given the "p" and "o" are next to each other on the qwerty keyboard, and it stuck.