Assurance Retraite data breach
From Breaches, in the HARD wiki · Updated
This article is about the September 2024 breach of Assurance Retraite. For every breach, see Breaches.
The Assurance Retraite data breach exposed 70,372 accounts from lassuranceretraite.fr in September 2024. The data taken includes income levels, dates of birth, family members' names and government issued IDs and 5 more kinds of data.[1]
Have I Been Pwned verified it and added it to its search on 20 Oct 2026, 2 years later. It is the 591st largest of the 618 breaches in HARD’s list.
What was exposed
Assurance Retraite’s breach included 9 kinds of data. What each lets criminals do:
| Data | What it’s used for |
|---|---|
| Income levels | Useful for payment fraud. |
| Dates of birth | Used to prove who you are to banks and phone companies. |
| Family members' names | Helps someone pretend to be you. |
| Government issued IDs | Enough to open accounts or take out loans in your name. |
| 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. |
| Marital statuses | 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, Assurance Retraite among them, without showing the data.
- Distrust messages that mention Assurance Retraite.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.
- Freeze your credit.In the US, free at Equifax, Experian and TransUnion. In Australia, ask Equifax, Experian and illion for a ban. No one can open credit in your name while it’s on.
Timeline
- : the breach, as best it can be dated.
- : Have I Been Pwned verifies the data and adds it to its search, 2 years later.
Breaches often stay hidden for a long time. Until it came out, people in it had no reason to change anything.
Similar breaches
Breaches that leaked the same kinds of data, closest in time:
- Upstox, April 2021, 111,002 accounts
- Prosper, September 2025, 18 million accounts
- Angel One, April 2023, 6.8 million accounts
- Addi, March 2026, 35 million accounts
- Odido, February 2026, 6.1 million accounts
- JCPenney, June 2026, 368,418 accounts
See Breaches for all 618, and Updates for keeping your devices patched.
References
- ^ Troy Hunt. “Assurance Retraite”, Have I Been Pwned, added 20 Oct 2026. Breach data licensed CC BY 4.0.
External links
- Have I Been Pwned, to check your email address
- lassuranceretraite.fr, Assurance Retraite’s website