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

Indian car -sharing market Zoom Zomom revealed that a Pirate has accessed personal data of at least 8.4 million customers, including their names, telephone numbers and cars registration numbers.

The company whose headquarters are Bengaluru identified the incident involving unauthorized access to its information systems on June 9, by his file With the American Commission for Securities and Exchange. The company said it had read the incident after some of its employees had received external communications from a threat player who said they had access to the company’s data.

“During the discovery, the company quickly activated its response plan to incidents,” said Zoomcar in his file.

The company said that there was “no evidence that financial information, passwords in clear text or other sensitive identifiers” were compromised in the violation.

Responding to the incident, Zoomcar said that he had implemented “additional guarantees on the cloud and the internal network, increasing system monitoring and the revision of access controls”, without providing more details. The company also said that it had engaged with third -party cybersecurity experts and informed “the appropriate regulatory authorities and the police cooperate with their investigations”.

However, Zoomcar has not yet said if he has informed assigned customers of the incident and he has information about the pirate.

Techcrunch has contacted Zoomcar, asking these questions and more, and updates this article when the company answers.

Founded in 2013, Zoomcar allows customers to rent cars on a monthly, weekly, daily and schedule. The company operates in 99 cities with more than 25,000 cars and has more than 10 million users, per The data available on his website of investors. In addition to India, society operates in Egypt, Indonesia and Vietnam.

In February, Zoomcar reported An increase of 19% in annual shift in car rental to 103,599 reservations. Contribution profit jumped more than 500% to $ 1.28 million, while net loss amounted to $ 7.9 million.

“To date, the incident has not led to any significant disruption in the company’s operations,” said the company.