New Delhi, 15 January 2022

As per news report of NDTV, data with over 5.4 million email addresses have been allegedly scraped from the Aditya Birla Group-owned platform and posted publicly. The alleged database includes personal customer information such as names, phone numbers, addresses, dates of births, order histories, credit card details, and passwords stored as MD5 (Message-Digest algorithm 5) hashes. The data breach is said to include details of employees including salary details, religion, and their marital status. The alleged Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail database has been made public by a hacker group known as ShinyHunters. The news of a breach of ABFRL accounts was reported by Have I Been Pwnd. As per the report, 5,470,063 Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail Limited accounts were breached and ransomed in December last year. The hacker group's ransom demand was allegedly rejected, and the data was subsequently posted publicly on a popular hacking forum. To check if you have been a part of the breach, visit the Have I Been Pwned website and enter your email or phone number.

Source - NDTV

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