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Times Car: 6.6 million members’ data including licence images and passwords stolen

Times Car confirmed theft of data on about 6.6 million current and former members plus Times Business Service users.

Disclosed

What happened

  • Times Car confirmed theft of data on about 6.6 million current and former members plus Times Business Service users: names, departments, addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers, emails, driver’s licence information and images, passwords (stored “in a form that cannot be restored”) and linked service IDs. No card data. Access began early September; blocked 26 Sep.
  • Root cause: not disclosed.
  • No attacker named.
  • Forensic investigation.