Buchbinder Car Renter Exposes Info of Over 3 Million Customers

guest · Jan 23, 2020

Buchbinder Car Renter Exposes Info of Over 3 Million Customers
January 23, 2020
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German car rental company Buchbinder exposed the personal information of over 3.1 million customers including federal ministry employees, diplomats, and celebrities, all of it stored within a ten terabytes MSSQL backup database left unsecured on the Internet.

The German company runs a worldwide network of over 5000 car rental stations directed by partners and franchise holders, with clients from more than 100 countries.

"IMPORTANT INFORMATION - Dear customers, we have been informed of a data leak that affected our systems," Buchbinder's notification says.
Customer information of millions exposed
The unsecured database was discovered by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Cybersicherheit Executive Director Matthias Nehls as part of a series of routine scans for unprotected databases.
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The more than 5 million files exposed included customer names, emails, phone numbers, addresses, dates of birth, license numbers, as well as financial information such as bank details and payment info listed on scanned invoices and rental contracts — luckily, credit card numbers were not found in the database.
The database is now secured
"Immediately after becoming aware of the facts, we immediately arranged for the closure of the corresponding ports by our contract partner, who was responsible for maintaining and securing the servers," Buchbinder told c't.

"According to Art. 32 (1) GDPR, the controller is obliged to take appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect the data in accordance with the state of the art," reuschlaw Legal Consultants associate Stefan Hessel said.

"In this case the backups of the car rental company were unsecured and freely accessible on the net. This obviously does not correspond to the state of the art. A violation of data protection is therefore present.
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