piZap Data Breach

What Happened

In approximately December 2017, the online photo editing site piZap suffered a data breach. The data was later placed up for sale on a dark web marketplace along with a collection of other data breaches in February 2019. A total of 42 million unique email addresses were included in the breach alongside names, genders and links to Facebook profiles when the social media platform was used to authenticate to piZap. When accounts were created directly on piZap without using Facebook for authentication, passwords stored as SHA-1 hashes were also exposed.

Compromised Data

Email addresses
Genders
Geographic locations
Names
Passwords
Social media profiles
Usernames
Website activity

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Breach Overview

  • Affected Accounts:

    41.8 million

  • Breach Occurred:

    December 2017

  • Added to HIBP:

    16 Jul 2019

  • Attribution:

    JimScott.Sec@protonmail.com

Recommended Actions

Change Your Password

If you haven’t already changed the password affected by this breach, do so immediately on every account where it was used.

Enable Two-Factor Authentication

Wherever 2FA is supported, add an extra layer of security to your account.

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