Elance

Disclosed Feb 18, 20171,291,178 accountsUnverified

Sometime in 2009, staffing platform Elance suffered a data breach that impacted 1.3 million accounts . Appearing online 8 years later, the data contained usernames, email addresses, phone numbers and SHA1 hashes of passwords, amongst other personal data.

What is known

People affected	1,291,178 (accounts in the leaked data, per Have I Been Pwned)
Disclosed	Feb 18, 2017
Happened	Jan 1, 2009
Attack	Not stated
Data exposed	EmailsEmploymentLocationPasswordsPhone numbers
Sector	Tech
Status	Unverified: not yet confirmed by an official notice, a filing or the organization
Check your email	Have I Been Pwned

Sources

Aggregatorhaveibeenpwned.com

Have I Been Pwned: Elance

Notices filed

Accounts in the dataFeb 18, 2017

Have I Been Pwned1,291,178 people

History of this record

Added2026-09-25

First recordedby backfillSource

First seen 2026-09-25 (Have I Been Pwned). Record counts are as reported. Not legal advice.

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