A recent data breach affecting iCabbi, a Dublin-based taxi dispatch software provider, has compromised the personal information of nearly 300,000 taxi app users in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah Fowler uncovered the security lapse.
The non-password-protected database contained 22,745 records and.csv (comma-separated values) documents with the names, emails, phone numbers, and user IDs of nearly 300,000 customers based in the UK and Ireland.
The exposed email addresses ranged from various email providers as well as private domains, including: 117,231 Gmail, 65,060 Hotmail, 17,588 Yahoo, 18,099 iCloud, 12,798 Outlook, 7,484 Live, and numerous other email accounts.
Founded in 2009, iCabbi is owned by Nottinghamshire-based Exel Technology Group. iCabbi claims to be the first to introduce the Software-as-a-Service (SAS) model to the taxi industry by offering services that include a dispatch system, applications for passengers and drivers, IVR phone systems, payment solutions, API, and a partner marketplace.
