A hacker claims to be promoting hundreds of thousands of consumer information regarding Indian startup Shadowfax, which presents logistics companies to e-commerce and hyperlocal platforms throughout the nation.
The pseudonymous hacker mentioned in an inventory on a identified cybercrime discussion board that they’re promoting the allegedly stolen Shadowfax information for an undisclosed quantity. A portion of the information printed within the itemizing claims to incorporate cell phone numbers, order supply and pickup statuses, and monitoring identifiers of customers who obtained orders or processed pickups by way of the platform.
The hacker mentioned the breach occurred in November, which led to the compromise of 5 million customers’ data.
It’s unclear if the information was obtained instantly from Shadowfax servers instantly or as a part of an current breach incident.
information.killnetswitch verified a few of the printed information by passing the monitoring identifiers by way of Shadowfax’s order tracker, which returned legitimate monitoring data on the time we checked. information.killnetswitch shared the portion of the allegedly stolen information with Shadowfax co-founder and CTO Vaibhav Khandelwal, who advised information.killnetswitch previous to publication that the corporate was “nonetheless validating the information if that is our information and monitoring suspicious exercise in our system,” and declined to remark additional.
Shortly after information.killnetswitch contacted Shadowfax, the monitoring identifiers that information.killnetswitch used to confirm started returning an error message saying the identifiers have been “not legitimate.”
Based in 2015, Shadowfax is touted as India’s largest on-demand third-party logistics platform and works with a few of the greatest e-commerce and hyperlocal meals supply firms within the nation, together with on-line grocery large BigBasket; Zomato’s quick-commerce platform, Blinkit; and Flipkart’s style portal, Myntra. The corporate additionally works with manufacturers reminiscent of Decathlon, Domino’s and Procter & Gamble.
Shadowfax processes greater than 1.5 million orders day by day utilizing a fleet measurement of over three million riders throughout over 2,500 cities in India, based on the corporate’s web site.
The Bengaluru-based startup, which counts Flipkart, Eight Roads Ventures and TPG NewQuest amongst its traders, has raised a complete of $181 million, together with its most up-to-date $60 million Sequence D spherical earlier this 12 months.
