diff --git a/types/hapi-auth-basic/hapi-auth-basic-tests.ts b/types/hapi-auth-basic/hapi-auth-basic-tests.ts
index 7f78fe9f65..1a7192af6f 100644
--- a/types/hapi-auth-basic/hapi-auth-basic-tests.ts
+++ b/types/hapi-auth-basic/hapi-auth-basic-tests.ts
@@ -22,21 +22,22 @@ const users: {[index: string]: User} = {
     }
 };
 
-const validate: Basic.ValidateFunc = function (request, username, password, callback) {
+const validate: Basic.Validate = async (request, username, password, h) => {
 
     const user = users[username];
     if (!user) {
-        return callback(null, false);
+        return { isValid: false, credentials: null };
     }
 
-    Bcrypt.compare(password, user.password, (err, isValid) => {
+    let isValid = await Bcrypt.compare(password, user.password)
 
-        callback(err, isValid, { id: user.id, name: user.name });
-    });
+    return { isValid, credentials: { id: user.id, name: user.name } };
 };
 
-server.register(Basic, (err) => {
+server.register(Basic).then(() => {
+
+    server.auth.strategy('simple', 'basic', { validate });
+	server.auth.default('simple');
 
-    server.auth.strategy('simple', 'basic', { validateFunc: validate });
     server.route({ method: 'GET', path: '/', config: { auth: 'simple' } });
 });
diff --git a/types/hapi-auth-basic/index.d.ts b/types/hapi-auth-basic/index.d.ts
index 54d463c2b3..ddf05c348a 100644
--- a/types/hapi-auth-basic/index.d.ts
+++ b/types/hapi-auth-basic/index.d.ts
@@ -1,18 +1,24 @@
-// Type definitions for hapi 4.2
+// Type definitions for hapi-bauth-basic 5.0.0
 // Project: https://github.com/hapijs/hapi-auth-basic
 // Definitions by: AJP <https://github.com/AJamesPhillips>
+//                 Rodrigo Saboya <https://github.com/saboya>
 // Definitions: https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
 // TypeScript Version: 2.4
 
 import * as Hapi from 'hapi';
 
 declare namespace Basic {
-    interface ValidateFuncCallback {
-        (err: Error | null, isValid: boolean, userCredentials?: any): void;
+    interface ValidateCustomResponse {
+        response: any,
     }
 
-    interface ValidateFunc {
-        (request: Hapi.Request, username: string, password: string, callback: ValidateFuncCallback): void;
+    interface ValidateResponse {
+        isValid: boolean,
+        credentials?: any,
+    }
+
+    interface Validate {
+        (request: Hapi.Request, username: string, password: string, h: object): Promise<ValidateResponse | ValidateCustomResponse>;
     }
 }