One of India’s popular online taxi booking service providers, OlaCabs
is claimed to be accessed illegally by an alleged group of hackers
called TeamUnknown. According to the post appeared on Reddit, OlaCabs’
development server has been hacked which then resulted into compromising
the credit card information, history, vouchers and behavior of all its
users.
However, according to the company, no sensitive information has been
compromised due to this hack attempt that was performed on a staging
environment when exposed for one of OlaCabs’ test runs.
The post found on Reddit includes the company information that is
directly been copied from OlaCabs Wikipedia page. It further claims that
OlaCabs’ application design is very poor and their development server
is weakly configured.
“The hack was a little tricky and involved many steps to get into the
database. Once we got into the database, it was like winning a
lottery,” says TeamUnknown.
TeamUnknown has also claimed to be having the credit card details and
voucher codes from OlaCabs users. However, a list containing voucher
codes has not been leaked anywhere. TeamUnknown has additionally
promised that it will not be misusing the users’ credit card details and
voucher codes.
On the other hand, OlaCabs said the hackers got into the server that
the company uses to experiment with new features. As per a message
circulated over email by the company, the server contains “dummy user”
data.
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