HDB Financial Services data breach
From Breaches, in the HARD wiki · Updated
This article is about the February 2023 breach of HDB Financial Services. For every breach, see Breaches.
The HDB Financial Services data breach exposed 1,658,750 accounts from hdbfs.com in February 2023. The data taken includes dates of birth, names, email addresses and phone numbers and 3 more kinds of data.[1]
Have I Been Pwned verified it and added it to its search on 11 Mar 2023, 1 month later. It is the 332nd largest of the 618 breaches in HARD’s list.
What was exposed
HDB Financial Services’s breach included 7 kinds of data. What each lets criminals do:
| Data | What it’s used for |
|---|---|
| Dates of birth | Used to prove who you are to banks and phone companies. |
| Names | Makes scam messages personal enough to believe. |
| 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. |
| Genders | Personal details that make scam messages more convincing. |
| Geographic locations | Roughly where you live. |
| Loan information | 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, HDB Financial Services among them, without showing the data.
- Distrust messages that mention HDB Financial Services.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:
- Angel One, April 2023, 6.8 million accounts
- RentoMojo, April 2023, 2.2 million accounts
- Terravision, February 2023, 2.1 million accounts
- Dymocks, June 2023, 836,120 accounts
- Hot Topic, October 2024, 57 million accounts
- Neiman Marcus, April 2024, 31 million accounts
See Breaches for all 618, and Updates for keeping your devices patched.
References
- ^ Troy Hunt. “HDB Financial Services”, Have I Been Pwned, added 11 Mar 2023. Breach data licensed CC BY 4.0.
External links
- Have I Been Pwned, to check your email address
- hdbfs.com, HDB Financial Services’s website