PAYMENT INFO SAFE

1. The stolen information contains user email addresses and ‘hashed’ passwords

2. ? No payment information or credit card data has been stolen or leaked, Zomato said in a blogpost on its website

3. ? The company has reset passwords for all affected users and logged them out of its app and website and all of the user accounts were secure

NEW DELHI (TIP): Online restaurant guide and food ordering app Zomato today said about 17 million user records have been stolen from its database.

The stolen information contains user email addresses and ‘hashed’ passwords but no payment information or credit card data has been stolen or leaked, Zomato said in a blogpost on its website.

The startup’s disclosure comes at a time when the world is grappling with the cyber attack by ransomware ‘WannaCry’.

Zomato said the data theft was discovered recently by its security team, without indicating the exact time or if it was related to the ‘WannaCry’ ransomware attack.“Our team is actively scanning all possible breach vectors and closing any gaps in our environment. So far, it looks like an internal (human) security breach,” it said.

Assuring its users that their credit card information on Zomato is fully secure, the company said “payment related information on Zomato is stored separately from this (stolen) data in a highly secure PCI Data Security Standard (DSS) compliant vault”.

Source: PTI