Impact & Downstream Threats
This breach carries critical risk due to the nature of exposed data fields and the scale of affected records.
- Credential stuffing against reused passwords across other platforms
- Targeted phishing campaigns using exposed email addresses
- Doxxing risk from physical address exposure
- Social media account targeting and impersonation
Breach Intelligence
Executive Summary
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.
About piZap
Online photo editing tool.
Data Points Exposed
Dark Web Verification
Status: Confirmed
- Dataset containing approximately 41.8M records identified in breach intelligence sources.
- The data is indexed and searchable across breach notification platforms.
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Frequently Asked Questions
In December 2017, piZap experienced a data breach that exposed approximately 41.8M records containing personal information.
The exposed data includes fields such as activity history:website activity, email address, full name, gender, geographic locations.
Approximately 41.8M records were affected based on current breach intelligence.
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