The operator of Times Car Rental, a popular car-sharing service, has announced it experienced a data breach last week involving some 6.6 million accounts, including leaks of images of personal IDs, as users rush to secure their personal information.
The firm, Times Mobility, first detected the breach last Friday morning and confirmed that an unauthorized third party had accessed the company’s data, before blocking the access route by the next morning.
It said that 1.6 million documents had been accessed, including pictures of documents that the company used to verify personal information, such as utility bills for home addresses and student IDs for those signing up for a student plan. Personal photos were confirmed to have been accessed through driver’s licenses.
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