500px

What Happened

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.

Compromised Data

Dates of birth
Email addresses
Genders
Geographic locations
Names
Passwords
Usernames

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Breach Overview

  • Affected Accounts:

    14.9 million

  • Breach Occurred:

    July 2018

  • Added to HIBP:

    25 Mar 2019

  • Attribution:

    BenjaminBlue@exploit.im

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