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Elance Data Breach (2008)

Elance

highXposedOrNot
Disclosed

January 1, 2009

6294 days ago

Records

1.3M

Confirmed

Root Cause

Hacking

Industry

Technology

Description

Elance, a staffing platform, was compromised in a data breach in 2009, although details of the breach weren't disclosed until eight years later. The incident affected 1.3 million accounts, with exposed data comprising usernames, salted SHA1 passwords (which are relatively hard to decrypt), first and last names, addresses, and phone numbers.

Exposed Data Types

Exposed Data

PasswordsPhone NumbersGeographic locationsUsernamesEmail addresses
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