Home-improvement startup Houzz suffered a data breach incident.
An unauthorized third party obtained the user data including names, locations, and personal descriptions; internal identifiers that Houzz uses to clarify its users; and encrypted passwords, IP addresses, and ZIP codes.
The company however investigated the incident and encouraged users to change their passwords as a precautionary measure and to prevent accounts from being compromised.
Source: https://www.remodeling.hw.net/business/houzz-suffers-major-data-breach_c
TPRM report: https://scoringcyber.rankiteo.com/company/houzz
"id": "hou01911222",
"linkid": "houzz",
"type": "Data Leak",
"date": "02/2019",
"severity": "85",
"impact": "3",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with internal employee data leaks"{'affected_entities': [{'industry': 'Home-improvement',
'name': 'Houzz',
'type': 'Company'}],
'data_breach': {'data_encryption': ['encrypted passwords'],
'personally_identifiable_information': ['names',
'locations',
'personal '
'descriptions',
'IP addresses',
'ZIP codes'],
'type_of_data_compromised': ['personal information',
'internal identifiers',
'encrypted passwords',
'IP addresses',
'ZIP codes']},
'description': 'Home-improvement startup Houzz suffered a data breach '
'incident. An unauthorized third party obtained user data '
'including names, locations, and personal descriptions; '
'internal identifiers that Houzz uses to clarify its users; '
'and encrypted passwords, IP addresses, and ZIP codes. The '
'company investigated the incident and encouraged users to '
'change their passwords as a precautionary measure to prevent '
'accounts from being compromised.',
'impact': {'data_compromised': ['names',
'locations',
'personal descriptions',
'internal identifiers',
'encrypted passwords',
'IP addresses',
'ZIP codes']},
'response': {'remediation_measures': ['Encouraged users to change their '
'passwords']},
'threat_actor': 'Unauthorized third party',
'title': 'Houzz Data Breach',
'type': 'Data Breach'}