Mercedes-Benz USA accidentally puts out data from nearly 1,000 customers
(Reuters) -Mercedes-Benz USA acknowledged on Thursday delicate non-public data of nearly 1,000 customers and patrons was inadvertently made accessible on a cloud storage platform.
No Mercedes-Benz system was compromised and no info have been maliciously misused, the company added.
The data accidentally made accessible comprised self-reported credit score rating scores, driver license and social security numbers and financial institution card data which was entered by customers and patrons on vendor and agency internet sites between January 2014 and June 2017.
Mercedes acknowledged any explicit one who had financial institution card data, a driver’s license amount or a social security amount included throughout the data may be supplied a complimentary two-year subscription to a credit score rating monitoring service.
(Reporting by Shreyasee Raj;Editing by Vinay Dwivedi)
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