EasyParkthe largest parking app operator in Europareported to information regulators in theUE It is in the United Kingdom the theft of customer data by hackers. EasyPark Groupowner of brands including RingGo e ParkMobilestated that customer names, phone numbers, addresses, email addresses and parts of numbers of credit cards they were stolen but, in the cyber attack, they were not compromised parking data. The company did not reveal the exact number of users affected, but specified that approximately 950 utenti RingGo In the United Kingdom. A company spokesperson said that “the majority of affected users are European users of the EasyPark brand”, which suggests that the data of thousands of customers was compromised.
EasyPark: No stolen data combination can make payments
The EasyPark Group said it discovered the breach on December 10th and began notifying all affected customers days later. The Swedish privacy regulator has been informed as the lead authority for the EU. However, the Information Commissioner’s Office in the UK and the Swiss data regulator were also informed. EasyPark said that, for affected customers, “a few digits of the IBAN or credit card number” were part of the breach. However, the company underlines that no combination of the stolen data could be used for make payments. However, he warned that customers should be careful about phishing, as attackers use the technique to trick people into providing money or payment details.
EasyPark is owned by private equity investors Vitruvian Partners e Verdanewho purchased it from BMW e Daimler in 2021. Its apps EasyPark, ParkMobile, RingGo and Park-line they operate in more than 4,000 cities in 23 countries. Among these there are United States, Australia, New Zeland and most Western European states like Germania, France, Spain, Europe e United Kingdom. The company said its ParkMobile brand, which matters 50 million users in the United States, was not affected by the attack. RingGo users were affected because some of its services were integrated with EasyPark technology. However, the RingGo platform was not hacked. The company is not yet aware of any use cases or publication of the data and has not received any ransom demand by hackers.