Impact & Downstream Threats
This breach carries critical risk due to the nature of exposed data fields and the scale of affected records.
- Credential stuffing against reused passwords across other platforms
- Financial fraud using exposed financial profile data
- Identity theft and synthetic identity construction using government-issued IDs
- SIM swap attacks where phone numbers are present
- Targeted phishing campaigns using exposed email addresses
- Doxxing risk from physical address exposure
- Employment-based social engineering using job and employer data
Breach Intelligence
Executive Summary
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.
About Upstox
Indian online brokerage and investment platform.
Data Points Exposed
Dark Web Verification
Status: Confirmed
- Dataset containing approximately 111K records identified in breach intelligence sources.
- The data is indexed and searchable across breach notification platforms.
Recommended Actions
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Frequently Asked Questions
In April 2021, Upstox experienced a data breach that exposed approximately 111K records containing personal information.
The exposed data includes fields such as bank account number, date of birth, email address, family member names, financial profile:income.
Approximately 111K records were affected based on current breach intelligence.
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- A customer of Upstox
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