Car-sharing giant Zoomcar says hacker accessed personal data of 8.4 million users

Indian car sharing market Zoomcar It reveals that a hacker entered at least 8.4 million clients’ personal information, including names, phone numbers and car registration numbers.

Bengaluru-Staff Company determined the incident with unauthorized access to information systems on June 9 According to his document With US Securities and Exchange Commission. After receiving the company’s information of some employees of some employees of some employees, the incident was aware of the incident after receiving the company’s information.

“When discovered, the company immediately activated the urgent response plan,” Zoomcar said.

The company said, “Financial data, flat text passwords or other sensitive identifiers” violated violation.

Responding to the incident, Zoomcar, “Views of additional guarantees between the cloud and domestic network, and reviewing the system monitoring and reviewing controls,” said additional information. The company also deals with third party cybership professionals and “relevant regulation and law enforcement agencies are full of authorities and are full of surveys,” he said.

However, the zoomcar has not yet informed its effective customers about the incident and did not have any information about the hacker.

TechCrunch has reached Zoomcar by asking these questions and more and the company will update this article when the company responds.

In 2013, Zoomcar allows customers to rent a monthly, weekly, daily and hourly cars. The company operates with more than 25,000 cars in 99 cities and has more than 10 million users Investor Relationship Information website available. In addition to India, the company operates in Egypt, Indonesia and Vietnam.

Zoomcar in February declare Up to 19% annual increase in car rental, up to 103,599 reservations. Contribution profit was more than 500%, more than $ 1.28 million, and net loss was $ 7.9 million.

“To date, the incident has not resulted in any material violations related to the company’s operations,” he said.