Hurb 2019 Data Breach
Hospitality & Travel / Online Travel Agency / Consumer / Brazil
Hurb (Hotel Urbano) 2019 Data Breach: 20.7 Million Brazilian Travel Records Exposed
Brazilian online travel agency, formerly Hotel Urbano.
Confirmed · ObscureIQ Intelligence
Breach Risk Index i
23/100
Lower riskHigher risk
Lower: limited current risk based on data value and recency.
Data Sensitivity i
StandardExposed data is largely lower-sensitivity. Standard identity-protection precautions are advised.
20.7MRecords
2019Year
The Breach Risk Index (BRI) is a proprietary 0–100 score rating how dangerous a breach is right now, based on how recently the data has been circulating on the dark web and how valuable it is to attackers.
Crucial data exposed
AddressPhysical address
Breach Summary
Around March 2019, Hurb (Hotel Urbano) suffered a breach exposing over 20.7 million customer records, which surfaced online in 2020. Exposed data included email and IP addresses, names, dates of birth, phone numbers and passwords stored as unsalted MD5 hashes.
Full threat analysis, exploitation vectors, and principal guidance below.
10 additional sections · verified field analysis · defensive doctrine
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20.7M records analyzed
About Hurb
Hurb, formerly Hotel Urbano, is a major Brazilian online travel agency selling hotel stays, flights and travel packages to Brazilian consumers.
Why They Hold Your Data
An online travel agency holds customer identity and contact data, dates of birth, phone numbers, IP and social-profile data, booking history and hashed account passwords.
Recent Developments
Hurb continues to operate. The March 2019 data surfaced for download the following year on hacking forums.
Data Points Exposed
8 verified field types
Date of Birth High
Email Address
Full Name
IP Address
Password High
Phone Number
Physical address High
Social Media Profile
Breach Impact
The breach exposed a large share of Brazilian online-travel customers and drew scrutiny under Brazil's LGPD data-protection regime.
Exploitation & Downstream Threats
• Credential stuffing against reused passwords across other platforms | • Identity verification bypass using name + date of birth combination | • SIM swap attacks where phone numbers are present | • Targeted phishing campaigns using exposed email addresses | • Doxxing risk from physical address exposure | • Social media account targeting and impersonation
Principal Risk Advisory
What this means for a principal
A travel or hospitality breach: itinerary, loyalty and contact data supports pattern-of-life inference and travel-themed phishing. For a high-profile principal the main risk is credible impersonation and enrichment of existing exposure.
What You Should Do
- Reset any reused passwords and enable MFA on email first, then financial accounts.
- Guard against SIM-swap and vishing: add a carrier port-out PIN and verify any 'support' calls independently.
- Do not use unofficial 'am I affected' lookups; several are themselves harvesting operations.
How ObscureIQ Can Help
- Corpus confirmation: determine whether and where the principal (plus household and staff) appear in this dataset and which specific fields are exposed for them.
- Exposure mapping and footprint neutralization: cross-reference against broker-available data and suppress still-removable elements, prioritizing address and phone, since this record re-seeds broker networks.
- ThreatWatch tuned to this incident's identifiers and misuse pattern (impersonation and targeting patterns, not generic credential monitoring).
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