zerofox logo
Advisories

Breach Disclosure: Zoomcar

|by Alpha Team

banner image

Breach Disclosure: Zoomcar

Zoomcar, an Indian self-drive car rental company, operating in 45 cities across the country has suffered a data breach, impacting more than 3.5 million customers. This breach was put up for sale on a popular hacking forum on May 19, 2020.

Recommendations

  • Enable 2-factor authentication for all of your organizational accounts to help mitigate phishing and credential stuffing attacks
  • If not already enabled, turn on the compromised credentials rule for all relevant entities and ensure relevant emails are entered for those entities, or reach out to [email protected] for assistance
  • If one of your entities receives an alert, ZeroFOX recommends immediate password changes for the affected account

Details

A database containing over 3.5 million records of customers of Zoomcar, an Indian self-driving car rental company, has been leaked and sold on a dark web forum for a minimal price.

Figure 1. Zoomcar’s Database available for sale on a hacker forum.

The leaked information includes:

  • Names
  • Email addresses
  • Phone numbers
  • IP addresses
  • Bcrypt-hashed passwords

Figure 2. Sample data posted by the threat actor selling Zoomcar’s database.

Tags: data breach, apac, logistics