ixigo data breach: 17.2M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2019-03-17
In January 2019, the travel and hotel booking site ixigo suffered a data breach. The data appeared for sale on a dark web marketplace the following month and included over 17M unique email addresses alongside names, genders, phone numbers, connections to Facebook profiles and passwords stored as MD5 hashes. Exposed data: auth tokens, device information, email addresses, genders, names, passwords, phone numbers, salutations, social media profiles, usernames. The breach dates from Jan 3, 2019; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Mar 17, 2019.
What to do
- If you had a ixigo 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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