Food ordering and restaurant aggregator app Zomato revealed that its database has been hacked and details of 17 million user records have been compromised due to the menace.
The company also revealed that the stolen information only contains user email addresses and ‘hashed’ passwords. Fortunately, payment information or credit card details have not been stolen/leaked.
The company said on its website, “The stolen information contains user email addresses and ‘hashed’ passwords but no payment information or credit card data has been stolen or leaked.”
Zomato which is a popular app amongst the youths stated that the exact details about the hacker haven’t been discovered yet. ‘Our team is actively scanning all possible breach vectors and closing any gaps in our environment,’ the company blog stated.
“Our team is actively scanning all possible breach vectors and closing any gaps in our environment. So far, it looks like an internal security breach – some employee’s development account got compromised,” the blog said.
Coming to the rescue of users, the company said, “payment related information on Zomato has stored separately from this (stolen) data in a highly secure PCI Data Security Standard (DSS) compliant vault”.
Zomato was founded as ‘Foodiebay’ in 2008 by Deepinder Goyal and Pankaj Chaddah. The online food service has covered nearly 23 countries across the globe.
If you had created an account with Zomato and have been using the same password elsewhere, it is advisable to change the current password and set a tougher one.
Amidst the rising apprehensions of data loss by the dreadful ‘Wannacry’ ransomware, the company is battling hard to safeguard users’ data. For this purpose, the company has changed passwords so that no further information can be leaked.
Wannacry has affected IT networks in over 150 countries. Even world class experts are in a fix as the Cryptoware is hard to crack. The hacker is asking for a ransom amount of $300 within 3 days of hacking, after which the amount doubles.
