Straffic Data Breach

What happened?

In February 2020, Israeli marketing company Straffic exposed a database with 140GB of personal data . The publicly accessible Elasticsearch database contained over 300M rows with 49M unique email addresses. Exposed data also included names, phone numbers, physical addresses and genders. In their breach disclosure message , Straffic stated that "it is impossible to create a totally immune system, and these things can occur".

When did it happen?

The breach date in the public record is February 14, 2020. The record was added to the catalogue on February 27, 2020 and last updated there on February 27, 2020.

What information was reported as exposed?

• Email addresses
• Genders
• Names
• Phone numbers
• Physical addresses

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 Straffic or used straffic.io around February 14, 2020. 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.