A user enumeration technique discovered by security researcher Carlo Di Dato demonstrates how Gravatar can be abused for mass data collection of its profiles by web crawlers and bots. Gravatar is an ...

The security alert company HaveIBeenPwned notified users that the profile information of 114 million Gravatar users had been leaked online in what they characterized as a data breach. Gravatar denies ...

Until now Gravatar has just been a way for you to use one avatar across the web. It’s worked well and allowed millions of sites to grab avatars to use in comments, forums etc. without forcing the user ...

Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com and Akismet, has acquired blog avatar provider Gravatar. Gravatar offers a “globally recognized avatar,” a 80×80 pixel avatar image that follows users from ...

Gravatar announced a free domain name offer and Bluesky integration that makes it relatively easy to use a custom domain name as a Bluesky handle. A custom handle provides a more professional Bluesky ...

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Remember back in March when Gravatar went all social-media and set up a 22 million person social network? Since then, you’ve had time to update your Gravatar profile while it still remained private.

Users who have signed up for password breach monitoring through the HaveIBeenPwned service are being alerted to a large-scale data leak by Gravatar, an add-on service for user profiles owned by ...