Evite is a social-planning website for creating, sending, and managing online invitations. The website offers digital invitations with RSVP tracking. It also offers greeting cards, announcements, eGift cards, and party planning ideas.
Evite was launched in 1998 by co-founders Al Lieb and Selina Tobaccowala. Since 2020, private investors have owned Evite after two decades of ownership under media conglomerates.
Evite is primarily used as an event-planning platform, offering free and "premium" (paid) digital invitations.
Legal controversyedit
In 2007, Evite threatened to sue San Francisco-based startup and competitor Socializr (later acquired by Punchbowl.com) due to alleged copyright infringement.[1][2]
Data breachedit
In July 2019, Evite data was found for sale online. Evite admitted that their systems were compromised and data of over 100 million accounts were stolen. According to Evite, the breach did not contain "user information more recent than 2013". The stolen data included users' real names, usernames, email addresses, passwords, dates of birth, phone numbers, and mailing addresses. Evite recommended users to change their passwords on Evite (but did not require them to do so). Also, since Evite stored plaintext passwords (not password hashes), if passwords were reused elsewhere, those accounts could be vulnerable to credential stuffing attacks.[3]
Referencesedit
^Nicole, Kristen (April 30, 2007). "Evite Threatens Socializr with Lawsuit". Mashable. from the original on June 2, 2007. Retrieved May 4, 2015.
^"Evite threatens to sue Socializr for copyright infringement". April 30, 2007. from the original on January 4, 2018. Retrieved May 4, 2015.
^Cimpanu, Catalin. "Evite e-invite website admits security breach". ZDNet. from the original on November 7, 2020. Retrieved November 7, 2020.
External linksedit
Official website
November 26, 2023
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