Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail data breach: 5.5M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2022-01-15
In December 2021, Indian retailer Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail Ltd was breached and ransomed. The ransom demand was allegedly rejected and data containing 5.4M unique email addresses was subsequently dumped publicly on a popular hacking forum the next month. The data contained extensive personal customer information including names, phone numbers, physical addresses, DoBs, order histories and passwords stored as MD5 hashes. Employee data was also dumped publicly and included salary grades, marital statuses and religions. Exposed data: email addresses, genders, income levels, job titles, marital statuses, names, passwords, phone numbers, physical addresses, purchases, religions, salutations. The breach dates from Dec 1, 2021; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Jan 15, 2022.
What to do
- If you had a Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail account, change its password and the password of any other account that reused it.
- Turn on multi-factor authentication wherever it is offered.
- Check whether your addresses are in this breach at https://haveibeenpwned.com.
- Expect targeted phishing that quotes the leaked details; verify any unexpected contact out of band.
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