500px data breach: 14.9M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2019-03-25
In mid-2018, the online photography community 500px suffered a data breach. The incident exposed almost 15 million unique email addresses alongside names, usernames, genders, dates of birth and either an MD5 or bcrypt password hash. In 2019, the data appeared listed for sale on a dark web marketplace (along with several other large breaches) and subsequently began circulating more broadly. Exposed data: dates of birth, email addresses, genders, geographic locations, names, passwords, usernames. The breach dates from Jul 5, 2018; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Mar 25, 2019.
What to do
- If you had a 500px account, change its password and the password of any other account that reused it.
- Turn on multi-factor authentication wherever it is offered.
- Check whether your addresses are in this breach at https://haveibeenpwned.com.
- Expect targeted phishing that quotes the leaked details; verify any unexpected contact out of band.
Sources
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