In a one more incident of security breach leading development outsourcing company Elance has suffered a security breach as some user information including name, addresses, phone, number and location had been compromised.

Many of the users at Elance received following mail:

It has recently come to our attention that certain Elance user information was accessed without authorization, including potentially yours. The data accessed was contact information — specifically name, email address, telephone number, city location and Elance login information. This incident did not involve any credit card, bank account, social security or tax ID numbers.
We have remedied the cause of the breach, and are working with appropriate authorities. In the meantime, please take extra precautions in protecting your Elance account. For example, do not provide your login information on any site that is not http://www.elance.com, and NEVER give out passwords by email, over the telephone or on websites that are not the Elance site.
We sincerely regret any inconvenience or disruption this may cause.
For more details and ongoing information about this, please visit this page in our Trust & Safety center: http://www.elance.com/p/trust/account_security.html

Michael Culver
Vice President
Elance”

According to the security alert as issued by Elance the data was taken by the hackers after finding a security hole on the website. According to Elance hackers might have accessed to an unprotected page, which might have provided them reach to the data containing contact information including name, e-mail address, telephone number, city location and usernames with protected versions of user passwords. However, this attack failed to reach at financial information like credit card, bank account, social security and taxID numbers.

Elance, further claimed that stolen data is now appearing on OutsourcingRoom.com, a competitive service.