Fashion Nexus Data Breach

What Happened

In July 2018, UK-based ecommerce company Fashion Nexus suffered a data breach which exposed 1.4 million records. Multiple websites developed by sister company White Room Solutions were impacted in the breach amongst which were sites including Jaded London and AX Paris. The various sites exposed in the incident included a range of different data types including names, phone numbers, addresses and passwords stored as a mix of salted MD5 and SHA-1 as well as unsalted MD5 passwords. When asked by reporter Graham Cluley if a public statement on the incident was available, a one-word response of "No" was received.

Compromised Data

Browser user agent details
Dates of birth
Email addresses
Genders
IP addresses
Names
Passwords
Phone numbers
Physical addresses
Purchases

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Breach Overview

  • Affected Accounts:

    1.3 million

  • Breach Occurred:

    July 2018

  • Added to HIBP:

    31 Jul 2018

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