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Elance

Disclosed Feb 18, 20179 years ago1,291,178 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 affected1,291,178 (accounts in the leaked data, per Have I Been Pwned)
DisclosedFeb 18, 2017
HappenedJan 1, 2009
AttackNot stated
Data exposedEmails, Employment, Location, Passwords, Phone numbers
SectorTech
StatusUnverified: not yet confirmed by an official notice, a filing or the organization
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Sources

Source
Have I Been Pwned: Elancehaveibeenpwned.com · Aggregator

Notices filed

WhereFiledPeople
Have I Been Pwnedaccounts in the dataFeb 18, 20171,291,178
History of this record
  • 2026-09-25 · added · backfill source

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

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