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Zoomcar Confirms Data Breach Exposed Personal Information of 8.4 Million Users

The Nasdaq-listed car-sharing firm notified regulators following the breach, reinforcing its cloud safeguards with network protections in cooperation with law enforcement inquiries.

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Overview

  • Discovery on June 9 followed threat actor emails to employees and triggered the company’s incident response protocol.
  • Preliminary investigation found that the breach exposed names, phone numbers, car registration numbers, home addresses and email addresses for 8.4 million users.
  • Zoomcar says there is no evidence that financial information, plaintext passwords or other sensitive identifiers were accessed.
  • The company has filed a report with the SEC, notified regulatory and law enforcement bodies, and is cooperating with their inquiries but has not disclosed if it has alerted affected customers.
  • The incident marks Zoomcar’s second major breach after a 2018 attack compromised over 3.5 million customer records.