UK-based pay-by-phone parking service - RingGo - has suffered a data breach, where information including partial credit card numbers of several of its customers has been leaked.
The EasyPark-owned company informed that the data of at least 950 customers had been stolen by the hackers.
The data included names, phone numbers, addresses, email addresses and parts of credit card numbers.
It has warned customers have been warned against phishing scams, where threat actors use stolen customer details to send them emails and text messages, that look convincing, in order to scam the target victims.
While British customers were the least affected by the breach, data of thousands of Europe-based customers are feared to be compromised.
It needs to be made clear as to who is behind the data breach.
Using the company's app, drivers pay for parking using their smartphones by providing information about their vehicle, like the license plate number, and payment information, like a credit or debit card.
The Information Commissioner's Office in the UK and the corresponding European agency have received reports from Stockholm-based EasyPark, according to a Tuesday Guardian report.
Owned by private equity firms Vitruvian Partners and Verdane, the company has operations across 4,000 cities in 23 countries, encompassing most of western Europe, the US, and Australia.
Since its founding in 2001, it has expanded via several acquisitions.
This Cyber News was published on www.cysecurity.news. Publication date: Sat, 30 Dec 2023 18:43:05 +0000