Bourse des Vols Data Breach

What happened

In January 2021, the French travel company Bourse des Vols suffered a data breach that exposed 1.46M unique email addresses across more than 1.2k .sql files and over 9GB of data. The impacted data exposed personal information and travel histories including names, phone numbers, IP and physical addresses, dates of birth along with flights taken and purchases.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

• Watch for targeted phishing emails referencing Bourse des Vols — attackers weaponise breach data quickly.
• Stay alert for smishing (SMS phishing) and SIM-swap attempts using your phone number.
• Exposed identity data raises identity-theft risk — consider credit monitoring or a credit freeze.
• Check whether your email address appears in this breach on haveibeenpwned.com.