Russian hackers steal data from thousands of Ulez drivers.
𝐁𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐍𝐄𝐖𝐒 𝐓𝐎𝐃𝐀𝐘:
Up to 13,000 drivers on the ULEZ and congestion charge database have been warned that their data has been stolen by Russian hackers in a cyber attack on Transport for London (TfL).
A cybercrime gang called Clop last week targeted the capital’s train and bus operators as part of a wider raid that saw the personal information of hundreds of thousands of Britons stolen.
British Airways, one of the affected companies also affected, told all 34,000 of its staff that their details had been stolen, while the BBC wrote to all staff to say they were caught up in a “significant global issue”.
UK authorities are on high alert to watch whether any compromised data, including bank details, National Insurance numbers and addresses, is sold on the dark web as the gang’s ransom deadline approaches tomorrow.
TfL is writing to the 13,000 drivers whose details were stored by a contractor responsible for the controversial Ultra-Low Emission Zone (Ulez), the London congestion charge zone and parking offences.
A spokesperson said: “Like other companies in the UK, one of our contractors recently suffered a data breach. The issue has been fixed and IT systems have been secured.”
TfL’s warning comes after Ofcom admitted on Monday it was also the target of the Russian gang, known as Klopp.
𝐓𝐟𝐋…𝐅𝐈𝐍𝐄 𝐎𝐍𝐄𝐒 𝐓𝐎 𝐓𝐀𝐋𝐊!
It gets worse.
TfL’s (Khan’s) agents who deal with issuing ULEZ fines, have themselves been charged with breaching the data protection act, to acquire the details of vehicles registered abroad… Two EU countries say TfL’s agency unlawfully obtained details of citizens to issue driving fines.
Source: The Guardian.
𝐓𝐀𝐗𝐈 𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐊𝐒 𝐄𝐗𝐓𝐑𝐀 𝐁𝐈𝐓.
Let’s not forget that although they tried desperately to keep it quiet, Uber has suffered from a number of Cyber attacks from hackers who have managed to get the account details of both customers and drivers.
Joseph Sullivan was hired as Uber's chief security officer in 2015. In November 2016, Sullivan was emailed by hackers, and employees quickly confirmed that they had stolen records on about 57 million users and also 600,000 driver's license numbers.
Sullivan was eventually convicted over the cover-up of 2016 data breach where hackers stole millions of customer records.
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