Pixlr data breach: 1.9M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2021-02-01
In October 2020, the online photo editing application Pixlr suffered a data breach exposing 1.9 million subscribers. Impacted data included names, email addresses, social media profiles, the country signed up from and passwords stored as SHA-512 hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com. Exposed data: email addresses, geographic locations, names, passwords, social media profiles. The breach dates from Oct 7, 2020; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Feb 1, 2021.
What to do
- If you had a Pixlr 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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