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Zoomcar data breach

From Breaches, in the HARD wiki · Updated
This article is about the July 2018 breach of Zoomcar. For every breach, see Breaches.

The Zoomcar data breach exposed 3,589,795 accounts from zoomcar.com in July 2018. The data taken includes passwords, names, email addresses, phone numbers and IP addresses.[1]

Have I Been Pwned verified it and added it to its search on 5 Jun 2020, 23 months later. It is the 245th largest of the 618 breaches in HARD’s list.

What was exposed

Zoomcar’s breach included 5 kinds of data. What each lets criminals do:

DataWhat it’s used for
PasswordsCriminals try leaked passwords on email, banking and shopping sites, because people reuse them.
NamesMakes scam messages personal enough to believe.
Email addressesExpect scam emails that name the company to look genuine.
Phone numbersExpect scam texts and calls, and a higher risk of someone moving your number to their SIM.
IP addressesRoughly where you were when you used the service.

What to do

  1. Check whether you’re in it.Search your email address on Have I Been Pwned. It tells you which breaches it appears in, Zoomcar among them, without showing the data.
  2. Change your Zoomcar password.If the account still exists, sign in at Zoomcar (zoomcar.com) and change it.
  3. Change it anywhere you used the same one.Start with your email, then banking and shopping. Leaked passwords are tried on other sites automatically, within days.
  4. Use a password manager and two-step sign-in.A different password for every site means one breach can’t open the rest. Two-step sign-in stops a leaked password working on its own.
  5. Distrust messages that mention Zoomcar.Scammers use breach data to sound genuine. Don’t click links in emails or texts about the breach; go to the site yourself.
  6. Put a PIN on your phone account.Ask your mobile provider for a port-out PIN, so no one can move your number to their SIM.

Timeline

  • : the breach, as best it can be dated.
  • : Have I Been Pwned verifies the data and adds it to its search, 23 months later.

Breaches often stay hidden for a long time. Until it came out, people in it had no reason to change anything.

Similar breaches

Breaches that leaked the same kinds of data, closest in time:

  • Dubsmash, December 2018, 162 million accounts
  • Chegg, April 2018, 40 million accounts
  • Eatigo, October 2018, 2.8 million accounts
  • Fashion Nexus, July 2018, 1.3 million accounts
  • Wendy's, March 2018, 52,485 accounts
  • CafePress, February 2019, 23 million accounts

See Breaches for all 618, and Updates for keeping your devices patched.

References

  1. ^ Troy Hunt. “Zoomcar”, Have I Been Pwned, added 5 Jun 2020. Breach data licensed CC BY 4.0.