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Zomato Explains About Its Recent Security Breach

The company assures that only names and email addresses were exposed, though they were made sure not to be made public soon.

 

We all know that Zomato recently observed a security breach where users’ account information database was hacked, after which the company announced that it got in touch with the person who accessed this information. The company later confirmed that the exposed data was not made public.

However, recently, Zomato has sent out a press statement explaining what actually happened and how would that actually impact its user base. The company has explained no other information expect users’ name and email address were exposed to the person who hacked the system. The company has also added that your Facebook/Google account connection is safe.

According to Zomato, its team discovered an unauthorized access to a part of its infrastructure that actually led to exposing Names and Email addresses of close to 17 million users, as well as hashed passwords for some of these users from the database. However, it seems that the company has already patched the vulnerability and also got in contact with the person and made sure that the exposed data was not released in public.

Along with this, Zomato has also mentioned, “Since you use Google / Facebook for authentication on Zomato, and the access tokens for these services were not exposed - your access to other services is safe and uncompromised. We’re still proactively expiring these tokens as a precautionary measure.”

The company has also added that it is changing all authentication credentials in its system as a precautionary measure to ensure extra security. 


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