UK and Irish Taxi Passengers PII Exposed In Data Breach

Nearly 300,000 passengers using taxi apps that are powered by iCabbi, a Dublin-based cloud-based taxi dispatch system provider, had their personally identifiable information exposed according to cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah Fowler. 

The key findings are the following: 

  • Over 22,000 records; 
  • Several .csv documents revealing customers’ PII such as names, email addresses, phone numbers; 
  • Hundreds of thousands of email addresses including from renowned media outlets and government agencies. 

Should this data had been discovered by ill-intentioned hackers could have put their users across the UK and Ireland at risk to phishing attacks, identity or financial theft, and more.

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