Houzz data breach: 48.9M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2019-03-12
In mid-2018, the housing design website Houzz suffered a data breach. The company learned of the incident later that year then disclosed it to impacted members in February 2019. Almost 49 million unique email addresses were in the breach alongside names, IP addresses, geographic locations and either salted hashes of passwords or links to social media profiles used to authenticate to the service. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com. Exposed data: email addresses, geographic locations, ip addresses, names, passwords, social media profiles, usernames. The breach dates from May 23, 2018; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Mar 12, 2019.
What to do
- If you had a Houzz 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.
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