Canva suffers a hack: 139 million accounts affected

Canva is a well-known website that offers the possibility of creating photos, such as posters or photos for social networks, among others, in a very simple way. This website has been the victim of a hack, due to which the data of 139 million accounts have been affected. The hacker in question is identified by the name GnosticPlayers accessed the company's server on Saturday. He obtained data such as usernames and emails, in addition to 61 million passwords.

Canva suffers a hack: 139 million accounts affected

In some cases the situation was more serious, since the real name and location of the users were also obtained. Also in others, the Google token was obtained, as has been known.

Mass hacking

The data of Canva staff members has also been violated, as has been revealed in various media. The website itself has acknowledged having been victims of this hack. Although they have denied that user access has been violated in this regard. They claim that passwords are encrypted by the highest security standards.

This attack is not the first one that this hacker has carried out. He is a well-known hacker who has been active for a while and a while ago managed to steal data from 24 different pages, thus obtaining information on 737 million users.

Canva has confirmed that they will contact all those affected by this hack. So it is to be expected that if you have been one of those affected, you will soon have an email from the web. We do not know at the moment when it will be sent and it is expected that in this email there will be more information.

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