Personal Information of 14.8 Million 500px Users Exposed In Security Breach (theverge.com)

Photo-sharing service 500px has announced that it was the victim of a hack back in July 2018 and that personal data was exposed for all the roughly 14.8 million accounts that existed at the time. PetaPixel reports: In an email sent out to users and an announcement posted to its website, 500px states that it was only on February 8th, 2019, that its team learned of an unauthorized intrusion to its system that occurred on or around July 5th, 2018. The personal data that may have been stolen by the intruder includes first and last names, usernames, email addresses, password hashes (i.e. not plaintext passwords), location (i.e. city, state, country), birth date, and gender. The company has reset all 500px account passwords, so to get back into your account you'll need to pick a new one using the recovery email system. "At this time, there is no indication of unauthorized access to your account, and no evidence that other data associated with your user profile was affected, such as credit card information (which is not stored on our servers), if used to make any purchases, or any other sensitive personal information," 500px says. "We recommend you change your password on any other website or app on which you use a password that is the same as or similar to your password for your 500px account," 500px says.

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No cost for companies

[houghi]

As long as there is no cost for the companies when this happens, we will keep seeing this.

I would propose a 1USD for each account that has been breached. That way small companies pay small amounts and large companies pay large amounts.

The best to give this money to is the NSA. Hear me out. They will have an incentive to breach companies and the companies will have an incentive to make their data secure against attacks of governements world-wide.

That is a win-win situation. The NSA is occumpied with (inderectly) security instead of surveilance. We all get better privacy, because of this.