{"id":777,"date":"2019-03-04T07:30:10","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T07:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.databreachlawyers.co.uk\/news\/?p=777"},"modified":"2019-03-02T11:59:56","modified_gmt":"2019-03-02T11:59:56","slug":"the-500px-data-breach-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.databreachlawyers.co.uk\/news\/the-500px-data-breach-incident","title":{"rendered":"The 500px data breach incident"},"content":{"rendered":"

News of the monumental 500px data breach incident has hit the media recently. It may have affected all of their users \u2013 that\u2019s 15 million people worldwide.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s understood that an \u2018unauthorised party\u2019 gained access to their systems on 5th<\/sup> July 2018. However, engineers only discovered the security issue and the subsequent breach last month. That means a period of around six months where victims of the 500px data breach have been left vulnerable to further attacks.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s thought that all 15 million of their users are affected by the incident. The organisation has triggered password resets as a precaution. Victims will need to keep an eye on their online accounts and activity, as well as being wary of phishing scams.<\/p>\n

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Information exposed in the 500px data breach<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Information that has potentially been exposed in the 500px data breach is said to include the following:<\/p>\n