Breach date: 2021-04-08. Added to this index: 2022-01-19. Accounts affected: about 111K. Domain: upstox.com.
What happened
In April 2021, Indian brokerage firm Upstox suffered a data breach. The incident exposed extensive personal information on over 100k customers including names, genders, dates of birth, physical addresses, banking information and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes. Extensive "know your customer" information was also exposed including scans of bank statements, cheques and identity documents complete with Aadhaar numbers.
Breach data sourced from Have I Been Pwned, used under CC BY 4.0. Additional breach metadata provided by XposedOrNot. DataExposed is an independent service and is not affiliated with or endorsed by either.
What was exposed
Bank account numbers: The number that identifies your account at a bank, usually stored with a sort code, routing number or BSB so a payment can be made or collected.
Dates of birth: Your full birth date, day, month and year, collected at signup for age checks, identity verification, insurance quotes, birthday offers or government services.
Email addresses: The email address you used to register or log in. It is the most common field in breaches because it doubles as your username on most sites.
Family members' names: Names of your partner, children, parents, siblings or other relatives, stored as emergency contacts, beneficiaries, household members, family tree entries or authorised users on an account.
Genders: The gender or sex recorded on your profile, usually picked from a list at signup, sometimes with a title such as Mr or Ms or a gender identity option beyond male and female.
Government issued IDs: Numbers or images of official identity documents, such as passports, national identity cards, Social Security numbers, Medicare cards, tax file numbers, residence permits and voter cards.
Income levels: An estimated or self-reported household or personal income band, collected by surveys, lenders, retailers, dating apps and marketing databases.
Marital statuses: Your relationship status, such as single, married, de facto, separated, divorced or widowed, collected by insurers, lenders, government forms, dating apps and marketing surveys.
Nationalities: The country of citizenship recorded against your account, collected by airlines, travel sites, visa services, banks, employers and some dating apps.
Occupations: Your job title, profession or industry as recorded by a service, sometimes with an employer name. It is collected by insurers, lenders, recruitment sites, professional networks and marketing forms.
Passwords: The secret you use to sign in, stored by the breached service either in plain text, in a scrambled form called a hash, or encrypted. How it was stored decides how quickly it can be recovered.
Phone numbers: Your mobile or landline number, collected at signup for contact, delivery updates, marketing and two-factor codes.
What to do now
Check whether your own address is in this dataset with the free email breach check.
Change the password on this service and every other site where you used the same password.
Turn on two-factor authentication on your email account first, because it is the reset path for everything else.
Treat calls and messages that quote real details about you as hostile until you verify them another way.
Frequently asked questions
What data was leaked in the Upstox breach?
The Upstox breach exposed Bank account numbers, Dates of birth, Email addresses, Family members' names, Genders, Government issued IDs, Income levels, Marital statuses, Nationalities, Occupations, Passwords, Phone numbers, Physical addresses. About 111K accounts were affected.
Was I affected by the Upstox breach?
Run the free email breach check with the address you used on that service. It will tell you whether your address appears in this dataset.
What should I do about the Upstox breach?
Change the password on that account and everywhere you reused it, then turn on two-factor authentication. Passwords from this breach are traded and tried automatically against other sites.