Elanic Data Breach

What happened?

In January 2020, the Indian fashion marketplace Elanic had 2.8M records with 2.3M unique email addresses posted publicly to a popular hacking forum. Elanic confirmed that they had "verified the data and it was pulled from one of our test servers where this data was exposed publicly" and that the data was "old" (the hacking forum reported it as being from 2016-2018). When asked about disclosure to impacted customers, Elanic advised that they had "decided to not have as such any communication and public disclosure".

When did it happen?

The breach date in the public record is January 1, 2018. The record was added to the catalogue on May 4, 2020 and last updated there on May 4, 2020.

What information was reported as exposed?

• Email addresses
• Geographic locations
• Usernames

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 Elanic or used elanic.in around January 1, 2018. 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.