Etsy.com

Etsy an American e-commerce platform focused on handmade and vintage items experienced a data exposure incident on August 8 2024. A database dump totaling 2.5 million lines was circulated across various dark web forums. The breach specifically impacted sellers and store owners. The leaked dataset includes approximately 60000 unique user records containing sensitive contact information. The content of the leak revolves around store names owner email addresses product descriptions and internal metadata such as registration dates and SEO configurations. The incident appears to be a targeted scrape or extraction of backend seller data which could facilitate phishing attacks against Etsy merchants.