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Breach occurred 2009-01-01Verifiedelance.com
What happened
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.
Data exposed
Frequently asked questions
The Elance data breach occurred on January 1, 2009. It was added to Have I Been Pwned's breach catalog on February 18, 2017.
1,291,178 accounts were affected by the Elance data breach, according to Have I Been Pwned's records.
The Elance breach exposed the following data types: Email addresses, Employers, Geographic locations, Passwords, Phone numbers, Usernames.
Yes. Have I Been Pwned has verified the Elance breach, meaning there's confirmed evidence the exposed data is genuine and tied to real accounts.
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