Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail Data Breach

What happened?

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.

When did it happen?

The breach date in the public record is December 1, 2021. The record was added to the catalogue on January 15, 2022 and last updated there on January 15, 2022.

What information was reported as exposed?

• Email addresses
• Genders
• Income levels
• Job titles
• Marital statuses
• Names
• Passwords
• Phone numbers
• Physical addresses
• Purchases
• Religions
• Salutations

These are incident-level categories. The record does not prove that every category was exposed for every affected person.

Who may be affected?

This record may be relevant to people who had an account or other relationship with Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail or used abfrl.com around December 1, 2021. A catalogue entry does not establish that every customer was affected or that every listed data category applied to each person. Compare the record with an official notice addressed to you.

What should you do?

Choose actions that match the information involved. If you find signs that someone is using your identity, the Federal Trade Commission provides a personal recovery plan at IdentityTheft.gov.