H
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Breaches
1
1 verified
Records Exposed
48.9M
Total across all breaches
Data Types Leaked
7
1 high risk
Latest Breach
2018
Houzz

Breach History

Houzz
May 2018Critical
48.9M
Records exposed
7
Data types leaked
Verified
Status

In mid-2018, the housing design website Houzz suffered a data breach. The company learned of the incident later that year then disclosed it to impacted members in February 2019. Almost 49 million unique email addresses were in the breach alongside names, IP addresses, geographic locations and either salted hashes of passwords or links to social media profiles used to authenticate to the service. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.

Exposed Data Types
Email addressesGeographic locationsIP addressesNamesPasswordsSocial media profilesUsernames
Incident Status
Data breachYes
Data brokerNo
Policy contradictionsNo
Exposed Data Types
Email addressesLow risk
Geographic locationsLow risk
IP addressesMedium risk
NamesLow risk
PasswordsHigh risk
Social media profilesLow risk
UsernamesLow risk