Guwahati: The popular intimate wear e-commerce platform for women, Zivame, that deals with the online sale of women’s clothing faced massive data breaches as 1.5 million Indian women customers’ personal information.
Information like names, e-mail, phone numbers, addresses, etc has been put on sale.
The seller highlighted that the data was not publicly available. It just provided a sample dataset of over 1,500 users' names, residences, and contact information. The seller insisted on only getting payment in Bitcoin, which is standard practice in such situations.
This data attack was carried out by the same organisation that allegedly sold 7.1 million LinkedIn profile data and 1.21 million Rentomojo (furniture renting start-up) data in the past.
Earlier this month, Uber's former chief security officer was sentenced to probation for attempting to conceal a 2016 data breach in which hackers gained access to tens of millions of customer records.