Gravatar Had a Security Breach in 2020 if You Used It Might Want to Change Passwords and/or Email Addresses

Sunshines bright on 31/10/2022 - 13:44
Last edited 31/10/2022 - 13:58

Gravatar: 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.

Compromised data: Email addresses, Names, Usernames

JUST an FYI!!!

You can check here: https://haveibeenpwned.com/

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Comments

  • Ryanek on 31/10/2022 - 13:55

    Thanks, your info might be a tad lagging though. You can get a list of possible breaches here https://haveibeenpwned.com/

    • Sunshines bright on 31/10/2022 - 13:57

      forgot to share that site. will update this

  • scrimshaw on 31/10/2022 - 14:11
    +2

    Compromised data on Gravatar: Email addresses, Names, Usernames

    Optus and Medibank (looks at each other) Hold our beer.

  • mskeggs on 31/10/2022 - 15:03

    Thanks Internet Explorer!

  • AndyC1 on 31/10/2022 - 15:34
    +2

    What an old breach… Was reported in December 2021….

    If you want to dredge up all the previous data breaches that have occurred then you will be posting for years.

  • deme on 31/10/2022 - 23:00

    ok

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