EasyPark has confirmed it was hit in a cyberattack that noticed buyer knowledge breached and revealed on-line.
The corporate, which runs apps to assist individuals discover parking spots, stated in an alert to clients that it found the breach on December 10 2023.
In keeping with BleepingComputer, the announcement didn’t maintain any particulars about what precisely occurred, or how many individuals have been affected. Nonetheless, an organization spokesperson informed the publication {that a} “portion of European customers” have been affected, which ought to imply the incident is contained largely throughout the EasyPark app.
Staying vigilant
Relying on what data the customers offered the platform with, the hackers stole some, or all, of the next knowledge entries: names, cellphone numbers, bodily addresses, e mail addresses, and a few digits of their bank card/debit card or IBAN.
Whereas “some digits of a bank card” have been stolen, the corporate claims the hackers don’t have sufficient knowledge to make unauthorized transactions or wire fraud. Nonetheless, the menace actors may have sufficient data on EasyPark customers to mount phishing assaults, identification theft, or related, so warning is suggested, particularly when receiving messages claiming to be coming from the corporate. Customers are additionally suggested to reset their account passwords and replace their login credentials on all different platforms the place they could have used the identical username/password mixture.
Impacted people will probably be notified by means of the EasyPark app, e mail, and SMS, the corporate additional defined. “If you wish to know if you’re affected, please open the app,” it stated. On the time of press, EasyPark continues to function usually. The corporate is at the moment engaged on strengthening its safety standing and has notified the police in Sweden, the UK, and Switzerland.
In the mean time, no hacking group has claimed accountability for the assault, nor requested for fee in alternate for the info.