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.

When did it happen?

The breach date in the public record is December 7, 2017. The record was added to the catalogue on July 16, 2019 and last updated there on July 16, 2019.

What information was reported as exposed?

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

These are incident-level categories. The record does not prove that every category was exposed for every affected person.

Who may be affected?

This record may be relevant to people who had an account or other relationship with piZap or used pizap.com around December 7, 2017. A catalogue entry does not establish that every customer was affected or that every listed data category applied to each person. Compare the record with an official notice addressed to you.

What should you do?

Choose actions that match the information involved. If you find signs that someone is using your identity, the Federal Trade Commission provides a personal recovery plan at IdentityTheft.gov.