ixigo Data Breach

What happened?

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.

When did it happen?

The breach date in the public record is January 3, 2019. The record was added to the catalogue on March 17, 2019 and last updated there on March 17, 2019.

What information was reported as exposed?

• Auth tokens
• Device information
• Email addresses
• Genders
• Names
• Passwords
• Phone numbers
• Salutations
• Social media profiles
• 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 ixigo or used ixigo.com around January 3, 2019. 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.