Security News > 2021 > October > 3D printing site Thingiverse suffers breach of 228,000 email addresses amid sluggish disclosure
Thingiverse, a site that hosts free-to-use 3D printer designs, has suffered a data breach - and at least 228,000 unlucky users' email addresses have been circulating on black-hat crime forums.
News of the breach came from Have I Been Pwned, whose maintainer Troy Hunt uploaded the 228,000 breached email addresses to the site after being tipped off to their circulation on the forums.
Hunt claimed on Twitter that in excess of two million addresses were in the breach.
Thingiverse is owned by 3D printing firm Makerbot, last seen in these pages back in 2015 when it was making staff redundant after failing to meet "Ambitious goals".
Makerbot was less than responsive to his private overtures, Hunt claimed on Twitter, eventually forcing him to go public in the hope of convincing someone that the source of the breach ought to be closed off.
The company does not appear to have publicly acknowledged the breach so far.