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ixigo data breach (2019)

In January 2019, the travel and hotel booking site ixigo suffered a data breach. The data appeared for sale on a dark web marketplace the following month and included over 17M unique email addresses alongside names, genders, phone numbers, connections to Facebook profiles and passwords stored as…

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ixigo
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17.2M
SectorRetail

Imported from Have I Been Pwned — pending editorial review and translation to French. The summary below is machine-extracted; consult the source for details.

In 2019-01-03, ixigo was affected by a data breach. Approximately 17,204,697 accounts were exposed. In January 2019, the travel and hotel booking site ixigo suffered a data breach. The data appeared for sale on a dark web marketplace the following month and included over 17M unique email addresses alongside names, genders, phone numbers, connections to Facebook profiles and passwords stored as…

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  1. haveibeenpwned.comhttps://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites#ixigo
  2. ixigo.comhttps://ixigo.com

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