Indian car sharing market Zoomcar He revealed that a hacker access to personal data at least 8.4 million customers, including names, phone numbers and car registration numbers.
The Bangalur -based company, which identified the incident that included unauthorized access to its Information Systems on June 9, per deposit with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. The company said it was aware of the incident after some of its employees received external communications from an actor threat who claimed to have access to the company’s data.
“After Discovery, the company immediately activated the incident response plan,” Zoomcar said in its testimony.
The company stated that there was no evidence that financial information, text passwords or other sensitive identifiers were at stake during the breach.
Responding to the incident, Zoomcar stated that it has implemented “additional safeguards throughout the cloud and internal network, increasing system monitoring and revision of access controls” without providing further details. The company also stated that it is dealing with third -party experts in cyberspace and has notified “the appropriate regulators and law enforcement principles and is fully cooperating with their research”.
However, Zoomcar has not yet said if it has informed customers who have been hit by the incident and if it has any information about the hacker.
TechCrunch arrived at Zoomcar, asks these questions and much more, and will update this article when the company answers.
Founded in 2013, Zoomcar allows customers to rent cars on a monthly, weekly, daily and hourly basis. The company operates in 99 cities with over 25,000 cars and has over 10 million users per The data available on the investor relationship website. In addition to India, the company operates in Egypt, Indonesia and Vietnam.
In February, the zoomcar referenced 19% on an annual basis increase in car rentals to 103,599 reservations. Contribution earnings increased over $ 500% to $ 1.28 million, while net loss amounted to $ 7.9 million.
“To date, the incident has not led to any substantial interruption of the company’s activities,” the company said.
