Elance data breach: 1.3M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2017-02-18
Sometime in 2009, staffing platform Elance suffered a data breach that impacted 1.3 million accounts. Appearing online 8 years later, the data contained usernames, email addresses, phone numbers and SHA1 hashes of passwords, amongst other personal data. Exposed data: email addresses, employers, geographic locations, passwords, phone numbers, usernames. The breach dates from Jan 1, 2009; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Feb 18, 2017.
What to do
- If you had a Elance 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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