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Hacker Steals 17 Million Zomato Users' Data, Briefly Puts It On Dark Web (hackread.com)
Waqas reports via Hack Read: Recently, HackRead found out a vendor going by the online handle of âoenclayâ is claiming to have hacked Zomato and selling the data of its 17 million registered users on a popular Dark Web marketplace. The database includes emails and password hashes of registered Zomato users while the price set for the whole package is USD 1,001.43 (BTC 0.5587). The vendor also shared a trove of sample data to prove that the data is legit. Here's a screenshot of the sample data publicly shared by "nclay." Upon testing the sample data on Zomato.com's login page, it was discovered that each and every account mentioned in the list exists on Zomato. Although Zomato didn't reply to our email but in their latest blog post the company has acknowledged the breach. Here's a full preview of the blog post published by Zomato 7hours ago: "Over 120 million users visit Zomato every month. What binds all of these varied individuals is the desire to enjoy the best a city has to offer, in terms of food. When Zomato users trust us with their personal information, they naturally expect the information to be safeguarded. And that's something we do diligently, without fail. We take cyber security very seriously -- if you've been a regular at Zomato for years, you'd agree."
What the fuck is zomato?
I say massive data breach. Let's call the whole thing off.
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basically trying to ape Yelp. I had never heard of it either until they bought the excellent Urbanspoon and it ceased to exist with a massive drop in quality in the Zomato husk which remained.
They would have menus/reviews from locals/restaurants by locale and known names. It has some of those things still just very poorly done compared to what I loved about Urbanspoon. I'm assuming they bought out other competitors as well to make this shitty Yelp wannabe.
What the fuck is Yelp?
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I call bullshit on their story, sounds more like they paid a ransom on their own data.
It's like zomato.
What the fuck is Ubanspoon?
Anyone who would willingly give their personal information to a website called 'Zomato' deserves to have their info stolen. Jeez! Zomato!
"Pay us 10 bitcoin or we tell everyone you like the rigatoni at Alfredo's."
Imagine if the Michelin Guides were written by the Mafia instead of snobbish Frenchmen.
How can I believe you when you tell me what I don't want to hear?
With all these breaches it seems like it would be easier for me to just sell my credentials directly and cut out the brokerage fee.
"a vendor going by the online handle of ÃoenclayÃ"
Was that really the name, or was it "oenclay", ie O N Clay or Owen Clay?
Michelin guides? Who needs a fucking guide to buy tires?
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17 million fucking people just trying to live in peace and decide what goes into their own bodies. The Drug War. That's what you call the tyranny of the majority.
Okay, I give up. What was his alias really?
Little-known fact: when Michelin started selling tires, they needed a way to encourage drivers to wear theirs out driving around to various restaurants. Hence the "Michelin guide."
Zamato is kind of useful. Their goal is to "help you enjoy the best food that a city has to offer", which they do by warning you which restaurants are popular with the loud mouth, selfie snap-happy tourists so you can avoid them.
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Technology critic Evgeny Morrozov once said that we won't really start to care about privacy until there is a 'privacy apocalypse'.
Not knowing what Zomato was, I realized that if it was a databroker (some of whom have deduced over 5000 scores on people), then that would perhaps qualify.
Any day now..
Looks like Zomato is going to become Zetchup.
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It's like TripAdvisor, but crapper.
If you gave me a choice between a printer and a giraffe with explosive diarrhoea, i'll get my ladder and my raincoat
Urbanspoon was pretty useful in new cities, to see what was around. Then Zomato came along, and things really sucked (it's funny that I can't remember now why it started to suck, because I got angry and deleted the app so quickly - i think the results changed to favor partners and it was a lot harder to search by genre, also maybe they required an account). I'm more surprised Zomato had 17 million users.
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Because only tourists are selfie snap-happy and/or loud and obnoxious right? I mean here you are, this isn't even a restaurant, and you're the most obnoxious person that comments on the whole site. Maybe the second most obnoxious, but I digress. Are you just passing through?
Because I'd love it if you found the door and took your, ahem, insightful commentary somewhere else.
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Well, Michelin created the guides to top restaurants so the French would go on road trips and thus wear out their Michelins a lot faster (and buy more tires).
That's the original reason why the Michelin guides exist Not unlike the reason why the Guinness Book of World Records exists (people would bet pints of Guinness over who did what).
It's a utensil lacking in privilege. You're probably CIS white male, aren't you?