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Thingiverse

Disclosed Oct 14, 20214 years ago228,102 accountsUnverified

In October 2021, a database backup taken from the 3D model sharing service Thingiverse began extensively circulating within the hacking community . Dating back to October 2020, the 36GB file contained 228 thousand unique email addresses, mostly alongside comments left on 3D models. The data also included usernames, IP addresses, full names and passwords stored as either unsalted SHA-1 or bcrypt hashes. In some cases, physical addresses was also exposed. Thingiverse's owner, MakerBot, is aware of the incident but at the time of writing, is yet to issue a disclosure statement. The data was provi

What is known

People affected228,102 (accounts in the leaked data, per Have I Been Pwned)
DisclosedOct 14, 2021
HappenedOct 13, 2020
AttackHacking
Data exposedDates of birth, Emails, IP addresses, Names, Passwords, Addresses
SectorTech
StatusUnverified: not yet confirmed by an official notice, a filing or the organization
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Sources

Source
Have I Been Pwned: Thingiversehaveibeenpwned.com · Aggregator

Notices filed

WhereFiledPeople
Have I Been Pwnedaccounts in the dataOct 14, 2021228,102
History of this record
  • 2026-09-25 · added · backfill source

First seen 2026-09-25 (Have I Been Pwned). Record counts are as reported. Not legal advice.

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