Mercedes-Benz data breach exposes SSNs, credit card numbers

guest · Jun 25, 2021

Mercedes-Benz data breach exposes SSNs, credit card numbers
June 25, 2021
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Mercedes-Benz USA has just disclosed a data breach impacting some of its customers.

The company assessed 1.6 million customer records which included customer names, addresses, emails, phone numbers, and some purchased vehicle information to determine the impact.
It appears the data breach exposed credit card information, social security numbers, and driver license numbers of under 1,000 Mercedes-Benz customers and potential buyers.
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Data breach impact disclosed after auditing 1.6 million records
On June 11th, a Mercedes-Benz vendor informed the company that the personal information of select customers was exposed due to an insufficiently secure cloud storage platform.

According to the company, the breach affects some customers and potential vehicle buyers who had entered sensitive information on Mercedez-Benz company and dealer websites between 2014 and 2017:

"It is our understanding the information was entered by customers and interested buyers on dealer and Mercedes-Benz websites between January 1, 2014 and June 19, 2017."
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"We will continue our investigation to ensure that this situation is properly addressed," said Mercedes-Benz in a press release.

However, the company has stated that this information would not have been searchable on or indexed by a typical search engine.
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