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Breach occurred 2017-12-07Verifiedpizap.com
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.
Data exposed
Frequently asked questions
The piZap data breach occurred on December 7, 2017. It was added to Have I Been Pwned's breach catalog on July 16, 2019.
41,817,893 accounts were affected by the piZap data breach, according to Have I Been Pwned's records.
The piZap breach exposed the following data types: Email addresses, Genders, Geographic locations, Names, Passwords, Social media profiles, Usernames, Website activity.
Yes. Have I Been Pwned has verified the piZap breach, meaning there's confirmed evidence the exposed data is genuine and tied to real accounts.
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