Photo-sharing website 500px says that the personal information of 14.8 million of its users was impacted by a security breach that occurred in July 2018. The site says that it is in the process of notifying all of its users and resetting their login credentials.
The notification (via PetaPixel) outlines that the company’s engineering team discovered a “potential security issue” on February 8th, and when they dug a bit deeper, they discovered that someone had breached their systems around July 5th, 2018. That unknown party “acquired partial user data” that users entered into the platform: first and last names, usernames, email address, and a hashed version of their password as well as a user’s birthdate, gender, and location if they…
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