The popular photo service 500px hacked. Your data could fall into network

A platform for sharing photos 500px reported a large-scale leakage of user data. Cracking occurred more July 5, 2018, but the developers found it is only February 8. Your data fall into the wrong hands, if you signed up for a day of leakage or earlier.

According to the company, hackers stolen user names and surnames, nicknames, email addresses, dates of birth and hash codes, which are used to recover passwords. Also among utokshih data could be gender, city, state and country of residence, if the user has provided them.

500px found no evidence of unauthorized access to user accounts. credit card details remain intact.

The company has promised to deal with the problem and strengthen the protection service. She has already started sending letters to all its customers with a request to change the password.

In January, security experts from Check Point found Fortnite in three vulnerabilities, because of which could be threatened by the accounts of 200 million users. In the same month in Explorer ES File Explorer

found hole through which an attacker could download from your smartphone almost anything.

500px is a kind of analogue Instagram - through service creative people share photos. The platform is very popular with photographers due to a number of advanced features - such as the ability to view the image metadata.