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Breach occurred 2020-10-03Verifiedgravatar.com
What happened
In October 2020, a security researcher published a technique for scraping large volumes of data from Gravatar, the service for providing globally unique avatars . 167 million names, usernames and MD5 hashes of email addresses used to reference users' avatars were subsequently scraped and distributed within the hacking community. 114 million of the MD5 hashes were cracked and distributed alongside the source hash, thus disclosing the original email address and accompanying data. Following the impacted email addresses being searchable in HIBP, Gravatar release an FAQ detailing the incident.
Data exposed
Frequently asked questions
The Gravatar data breach occurred on October 3, 2020. It was added to Have I Been Pwned's breach catalog on December 5, 2021.
113,990,759 accounts were affected by the Gravatar data breach, according to Have I Been Pwned's records.
The Gravatar breach exposed the following data types: Email addresses, Names, Usernames.
Yes. Have I Been Pwned has verified the Gravatar breach, meaning there's confirmed evidence the exposed data is genuine and tied to real accounts.
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