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A hacker has leaked 1.9 million Pixlr user records containing information that could be used to perform targeted phishing and credential stuffing attacks.
Pixlr is a very popular and free online photo editing application with many of the same features found in a professional desktop photo editor like Photoshop. While Pixlr offers basic editing tools for free, the site also provides premium memberships that include more advanced tools, stock photos, and other features.
Chroma Key in Pixlr: In this tutorial, we are going to take a "person" image, cut out any unwanted background around them and replace it with a backdrop of our choice.
Over the weekend, a threat actor known as ShinyHunters shared a database for free on a hacker forum that he claims was stolen from Pixlr while he breached the 123rf stock photo site. Pixlr and 123rf are both owned by the same company, Inmagine.
ShinyHunters is a threat actor well-known for hacking into websites and selling stolen user databases in private sales or via data breach brokers. In the past, ShinyHunters has been responsible for data breaches at Tokopedia, Homechef, Minted, Chatbooks, Dave, Promo, Mathway, Wattpad, and many more.
The alleged Pixlr database posted by ShinyHunters contains 1,921,141 user records consisting of email addresses, login names, SHA-512 hashed passwords, a user's country, whether they signed up for the newsletter, and other internal information.
ShinyHunters stated he downloaded the database from the company's AWS bucket at the end of 2020.
After sharing the database, many other threat actors who frequent the hacker forum shared their appreciation as attackers could use the data for their malicious activities.
While Pixlr has not responded to our email about the leaked database, BleepingComputer has confirmed that many of the email addresses in the database are registered Pixlr members.
What should Pixlr users do now?
As some of the exposed data is confirmed as accurate, it does appear to be a legitimate breach.
It is strongly suggested that all Pixlr users immediately change their passwords on the site out of an abundance of caution. Users should use a unique and strong password that is not used at any other site.
If the same password at Pixlr is used at other sites, you should change your password at these sites and one unique for the site.
A password manager is recommended to help you manage the unique passwords you use at different sites.
Update 1/20/2021: Article was updated to include the correct number of user records. Originally, we stated 1.4 million user records, but the actual number is 1.9 million.
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Layers are what make Pixlr Editor a powerful graphic design tool. The basics are foreign to people who have never used a graphic design app like this, but they are easy to understand once you get the hang of them. To give you a very short and quick tutorial, we are going to take a blank canvas, insert a landscape image, add still another image, and add some text. At the end, we’ll even give you a file you can download and open in Pixlr Editor if you want to experiment with layers yourself.
The background layer
When you create a new document in Pixlr Editor, you are creating a new blank canvas. By default, that blank canvas is white, but you can check the “Transparent” box when creating a new canvas to make the background have no color whatsoever.
Select all, copy, paste in a new layer
Once we’ve done that, we open a new image (File > Open) of a beautiful ocean landscape. While viewing that image, we select all, copy, and paste that image into our original blank canvas. (Note: You must select something before copying.)
By pasting in this image, we have automatically created a new layer on top of the background layer. We could drag and drop these layers from the Layers menu to place one on top of the other if we wanted. You can paste in any image in this way (or even a selection of something you copied from another image).
Adding a transparent layer
We’ll add another image of a seagull that we have handy. This is an image of a seagull that has a transparent background already. We have again used the select call, copy, and paste commands to place this seagull into the sky.
Renaming layers
We like to keep things neat and tidy, so we are naming our layers. You can do this by double clicking on a layer and entering text. Or, right click on the layer, and you’ll see a sub-menu with choices.
Moving images inside a layer around
You can move each individual layer by selecting the Move tool and simply dragging your image around. As you can see here, we move our landscape and the background peeks through.
Moving layers in front/behind each other
You can also move your layers in the Layers menu. We drag the seagull below the landscape layer, and the seagull disappears.
Changing the opacity of a layer
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Perhaps the handiest detail of layers is that you can change the opacity of a layer. The button at the bottom-left of the Layers menu lets you control the opacity of any layer. Here, simply to show how it works, we lower the opacity of the seagull layer.
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Adding layer styles
You can also apply layer styles to any layer. This is a great way to blend your images or add effects like a drop shadow to an object.
Adding text layers
Finally, we’ll add some text.
Visual details of the Layer menu
Note that each layer in the layer menu has a different look depending on the type of layer it is: white background, image, transparent image, text. Note also that each layer that has a layer style added to it has a yellow starburst. All of these visual indicators are designed so you can have more information about your layers while you’re editing. Note: There are not options to merge layers or group layers, but you can drag and drop these layers to rearrange them manually.
That’s it. Here’s the final product:
Want to mess around with this yourself? Download the .pxd file we used to create this quick tutorial and experiment yourself. You’ll find it at the bottom of this page. Need the cute font that we used? You can find that here on Dafont.com.
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