TeamUnknown Hacked OLA Cabs
A hacker group calling itself "TeamUnknown" has hacked the online taxi
hailing service Ola Cabs and posted some screenshots with messages on
reddit. The hackers said they had been able to access Ola user details
along with credit card transaction history and unused vouchers.
But the company spokesperson said in an emailed response, "There has
been no security lapse, whatsoever to any user data. The alleged hack
seems to have been performed on a staging environment when exposed for
one of our test runs.
"The staging environment is on a completely different network compared
to our production environment, and only has dummy user values
exclusively used for internal testing purposes."
"We confirm that there has been no attempt by the hackers to reach out
to us in this regard. Security and privacy of customer data is paramount
to us at Ola."
Here some screenshots from the Reddit post:
Here is the message:
"Their Application design is very poor and their development server is
weakly configured. The hack was a little tricky and involved many steps
to get to the database. Once we got to the database it was like winning a
lottery.
"It had all the user details along with credit card transaction history
and unused vouchers. The voucher codes are not even out yet. Its obvious
that we wont be using credit card details and voucher codes."
