Artsy Data Breach

What Happened

In April 2018, the online arts database Artsy suffered a data breach which consequently appeared for sale on a dark web marketplace. Over 1M accounts were impacted and included IP and email addresses, names and passwords stored as salted SHA-512 hashes.

Compromised Data

Email addresses
IP addresses
Names
Passwords

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Breach Overview

  • Affected Accounts:

    1.1 million

  • Breach Occurred:

    April 2018

  • Added to HIBP:

    25 May 2020

  • Attribution:

    nano@databases.pw

Recommended Actions

Change Your Password

If you haven’t already changed the password affected by this breach, do so immediately on every account where it was used.

Enable Two-Factor Authentication

Wherever 2FA is supported, add an extra layer of security to your account.

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