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July 5, 2018 Verified Sensitive Record Digital media

500px Data Breach

The 2018 500px breach is reported to have occurred on July 5, 2018, and to have been discovered by the company in February 2019. public breach source catalogues 14,867,999 unique emails…

14.9 Million
Reported Records
7
Data Types
Critical
Severity
Yes
Verification

Exposed Data Types

7
Dates of birth
Email addresses
Genders
Geographic locations
Names
Md5 or bcrypt password hashes depending on account age
Usernames

Additional Information

Added DateMarch 25, 2019
Breach DateJuly 5, 2018
Domain500px.com
Source500px company notice and authenticated breach corpus
Last Content UpdateJuly 29, 2026

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Company Information

Company Name500px
SectorDigital media
CountryCanada
Website500px.com

Risk Level

Critical

The reported impact exceeds 1 million and falls within the critical severity band.

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