Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail data breach
From Breaches, in the HARD wiki · Updated
This article is about the December 2021 breach of Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail. For every breach, see Breaches.
The Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail data breach exposed 5,470,063 accounts from abfrl.com in December 2021. The data taken includes passwords, income levels, purchases and names and 8 more kinds of data.[1]
Have I Been Pwned verified it and added it to its search on 15 Jan 2022, 1 month later. It is the 188th largest of the 618 breaches in HARD’s list.
What was exposed
Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail’s breach included 12 kinds of data. What each lets criminals do:
| Data | What it’s used for |
|---|---|
| Passwords | Criminals try leaked passwords on email, banking and shopping sites, because people reuse them. |
| Income levels | Useful for payment fraud. |
| Purchases | Shows what you buy, which makes fake order and refund scams convincing. |
| Names | Makes scam messages personal enough to believe. |
| Physical addresses | Used to prove who you are, and for scam letters and parcels. |
| Email addresses | Expect scam emails that name the company to look genuine. |
| Phone numbers | Expect scam texts and calls, and a higher risk of someone moving your number to their SIM. |
| Religions | Private, and now in someone else’s hands. |
| Genders | Personal details that make scam messages more convincing. |
| Job titles | Personal details that make scam messages more convincing. |
| Marital statuses | Personal details that make scam messages more convincing. |
| Salutations | Personal details that make scam messages more convincing. |
What to do
- Check whether you’re in it.Search your email address on Have I Been Pwned. It tells you which breaches it appears in, Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail among them, without showing the data.
- Change your Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail password.If the account still exists, sign in at Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail (abfrl.com) and change it.
- Change it anywhere you used the same one.Start with your email, then banking and shopping. Leaked passwords are tried on other sites automatically, within days.
- Use a password manager and two-step sign-in.A different password for every site means one breach can’t open the rest. Two-step sign-in stops a leaked password working on its own.
- Distrust messages that mention Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail.Scammers use breach data to sound genuine. Don’t click links in emails or texts about the breach; go to the site yourself.
- Put a PIN on your phone account.Ask your mobile provider for a port-out PIN, so no one can move your number to their SIM.
Timeline
- : the breach, as best it can be dated.
- : Have I Been Pwned verifies the data and adds it to its search, 1 month later.
Similar breaches
Breaches that leaked the same kinds of data, closest in time:
- Imavex, August 2021, 878,209 accounts
- Bonobos, August 2020, 2.8 million accounts
- Fanpass, April 2022, 112,251 accounts
- Exactis, June 2018, 132 million accounts
- LuLu, July 2024, 2.8 million accounts
- Fashion Nexus, July 2018, 1.3 million accounts
See Breaches for all 618, and Updates for keeping your devices patched.
References
- ^ Troy Hunt. “Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail”, Have I Been Pwned, added 15 Jan 2022. Breach data licensed CC BY 4.0.
External links
- Have I Been Pwned, to check your email address
- abfrl.com, Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail’s website