OLA Cabs Hacked

Credit Card, Transaction Details & Voucher Codes Out

In today’s information age, the rapid development of technology has given more wings to cyber criminals as now they come up with even more frightening attack strategies than ever before. And if hackers get access to your credit card and transaction history, what can be scarier than that? As per a new report Olacabs has been hacked by a hacker and the hacker has posted the database structure of Olacabs. The hackers claims to have gotten the user details as well as credit card and transaction history, which is DAMN scary!

OLA Cabs Hack: User Details, Credit Card History Could Be Stolen

A hacker group has announced on Reddit that they have hacked Ola Cabs database, and have access to critical information such as credit card details, transaction history and voucher codes (unused). The hackers announced on Reddit,

Their Application design is very poor and their development server is weakly configured. The hack was a little tricky and involved many steps to get to the database. Once we got to the database it was like winning a lottery. It had all the user details along with credit card transaction history and unused vouchers. The voucher codes are not even out yet..

As proof, TeamUnknown has included snapshots which show the results of a database query that includes a lot of names that appear to be related to Ola Cabs. There is no further explanation of the methods used, and the Reddit post only states that the hack “was a little tricky, and involved many steps to get to the database.” Of course, if this is genuine, then the information sent by the hacker to Ola Cabs could be much more comprehensive.

Ola Cabs Hacked: Data base Screenshots

Calling themselves ‘Team Unknown’, this hacker group has posted three screenshots of the data base which allegedly belongs to Ola Cabs:

1. Hackers have access to email ids of various employees and users, phone numbers and named.

 

2. The hacker has shown that he can access all major tables inside the database such as user preferences, user details and transaction history.

3. MySQL codes which can retrieve any information he or she wants from Ola database.

‘Team Unknown’ has claimed that they have contacted Ola Management about this hack, but as of now, they have received no notifications from them.

Lastly, their announcement said, “I am sure OLA might be having a security team of their own. Not that good it seems.

On Reddit, Team Unknown writes: “It’s obvious that we won’t be using credit card details and voucher codes,” which is a promising sign. Hopefully – if true – then this will prove to be like the Gaana.com hack last month, where the hackers only carried out the hack to expose security flaws, and did not leak the details of the users.