EyeEm data breach: 19.6M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2019-02-16
In February 2018, photography website EyeEm suffered a data breach. The breach was identified among a collection of other large incidents and exposed almost 20M unique email addresses, names, usernames, bios and password hashes. Exposed data: bios, email addresses, names, passwords, usernames. The breach dates from Feb 28, 2018; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Feb 16, 2019.
What to do
- If you had a EyeEm 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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