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Hyundai Motor India fixes bug that exposed customers’ personal data


A very simple bug allowed anyone to access Hyundai Motor India customer records, which the car maker has now fixed.

In a phone conversation on Thursday, Hyundai Motor India spokesperson Siddhartha P. Saikia said the company would provide a statement. Hyundai Motor India did not answer questions about whether it had the technical means, such as logs, to determine any improper access to a customer’s records, nor would the company say if any bad actors exploited the issue. Upon receiving the company’s response, TechCrunch confirmed the bug was fixed, and the links in concern were no longer active — redirected to a page giving an error message.

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