Zomato suffers massive security breach, over 17 million user data ‘hacked’
Restaurant discovery and food ordering platform Zomato has reportedly suffered a security breach with over 17 million accounts of users now being sold on the dark web.
According to hackread.com, a vendor going by the online handle of “nclay” is claiming to have hacked Zomato and selling the data of its 17 million registered users on a popular dark web marketplace.
“The database includes emails and password hashes of registered Zomato users while the price set for the whole package is $1,001.43 (BTC 0.5587),” said the report
It also said that the vendor shared a trove of sample data to prove that the data is legit
Zomato provides information about restaurants in over 10,000 cities across 23 countries. It was founded by Deepinder Goyal and Pankaj Chaddah.
“We are investigating this and will keep you posted,” said Deepinder Goyal in a tweet.
Important disclosure – https://t.co/sI2X8wvHgm – we are investigating this and will keep you posted. https://t.co/nYgnwoaPqF
— Deepinder Goyal (@deepigoyal) May 18, 2017
Meanwhile, Zomato CTO Gunjan Patidar tweeted a disclosure on user database leak with a link explaining the breach to users.
The security disclosure reads, “The reason you’re reading this blog post is …read more
