Zoomcar data breach: 3.6M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2020-06-05
In July 2018, the Indian self-drive car rental company Zoomcar suffered a data breach which was subsequently sold on a dark web marketplace in 2020. The breach exposed over 3.5M records including names, email and IP addresses, phone numbers and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com. Exposed data: email addresses, ip addresses, names, passwords, phone numbers. The breach dates from Jul 1, 2018; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Jun 5, 2020.
What to do
- If you had a Zoomcar account, change its password and the password of any other account that reused it.
- Turn on multi-factor authentication wherever it is offered.
- Check whether your addresses are in this breach at https://haveibeenpwned.com.
- Expect targeted phishing that quotes the leaked details; verify any unexpected contact out of band.
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