It is not that only you people are the target of hackers, anyone can be the target of hackers. Now recently it has come to light that there has been a cyber attack on the car-sharing platform ZoomCar and this has been confirmed by the company itself. Zoomcar has informed the US Securities and Exchange Commission that hackers have accessed the company's information system and stolen personal data.

Which details were stolen?

According to the information given to the US Securities and Exchange Commission, data of at least 84 lakh people has been stolen in this cyber attack. The company said that some employees received an email in which the hacker claimed to have accessed the data. The personal data stolen in the data breach includes people's names, phone numbers, and car registration numbers. However, the company has claimed that no evidence of a leak of sensitive information like passwords and financial information has been found.

Zoomcar said in the filing that the incident response plan was activated immediately after the data breach was detected. After the data breach, the company has now strengthened the security of the internal network and cloud even more than before, as well as increased the monitoring of the system.

The company is also contacting third-party cybersecurity experts to investigate the matter. At present it is not clear whether the company has informed the affected users about this or not. Zoomcar also said that the company's operations have not been affected by the data breach.

What is ZoomCar?
Zoomcar started in 2013, through this platform people can rent a car on a monthly, weekly, daily, and hourly basis. In 2023, the company merged with an American blank-check firm called Innovative International Acquisition Corp and became a US-listed public company registered in Delaware. This is why Zoomcar had to report the data breach information in compliance with SEC finaancial reporting standards.

It is not that only you people are the target of hackers, anyone can be the target of hackers. Now recently it has come to light that there has been a cyber attack on the car-sharing platform ZoomCar and this has been confirmed by the company itself. Zoomcar has informed the US Securities and Exchange Commission that hackers have accessed the company's information system and stolen personal data.

Which details were stolen?

According to the information given to the US Securities and Exchange Commission, data of at least 84 lakh people has been stolen in this cyber attack. The company said that some employees received an email in which the hacker claimed to have accessed the data. The personal data stolen in the data breach includes people's names, phone numbers, and car registration numbers. However, the company has claimed that no evidence of a leak of sensitive information like passwords and financial information has been found.

Zoomcar said in the filing that the incident response plan was activated immediately after the data breach was detected. After the data breach, the company has now strengthened the security of the internal network and cloud even more than before, as well as increased the monitoring of the system.

The company is also contacting third-party cybersecurity experts to investigate the matter. At present it is not clear whether the company has informed the affected users about this or not. Zoomcar also said that the company's operations have not been affected by the data breach.

What is ZoomCar?
Zoomcar started in 2013, through this platform people can rent a car on a monthly, weekly, daily, and hourly basis. In 2023, the company merged with an American blank-check firm called Innovative International Acquisition Corp and became a US-listed public company registered in Delaware. This is why Zoomcar had to report the data breach information in compliance with SEC finaancial reporting standards.

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