What happened
In May 2019 the Australian design platform Canva was breached, exposing data for around 137 million users worldwide, including usernames, names, email addresses and hashed passwords [canva-media]. Canva disclosed the breach and prompted password resets.
Timeline
- 2019-05 — Breach disclosed; ~137M accounts affected [canva-media].
Current status
Resolved; passwords reset and users notified. Figures are as reported. [canva-media]
Why it matters
One of the largest breaches to originate from an Australian company, with impact spread across a global user base.