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Public breachBreachXposedOrNot· 1 Jan 2009

Elance

Domain: elance.com

What happened

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.

Breach facts

Records exposed
1,291,016
Sensitive
No
Industry
Information Technology
Data exposed
UsernamesEmail addressesPasswordsPhone numbersGeographic locations

This page summarises publicly reported breach metadata for awareness. For account recovery or incident response, use the official guidance from the affected service.

Breach data provided by XposedOrNot.