ShellCodeX Breach Report
Artsy Data Breach
artsy.net
Verified breach
Passwords exposed
Accounts exposed
1,079,970
Breach date
01 Apr 2018
Added to tracker
25 May 2020
Data classes
4
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.
Exposed data
Email addresses
IP addresses
Names
Passwords
Recommended actions
- Change your Artsy password immediately, and update it anywhere you reused the same password.
- Enable two-factor authentication on the affected account and on your critical services (email, banking).
- Watch for targeted phishing emails referencing Artsy — attackers weaponise breach data quickly.
- Check whether your email address appears in this breach on haveibeenpwned.com.
Am I affected?
Check whether your email address appears in this breach.
Check on HIBP