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India’s Rapido exposed user and driver data through leaky website feedback form


Rapido restricted access to the exposed portal soon after TechCrunch contacted the company.

Rapido, a popular ride-hailing platform in India, has fixed a security issue that exposed personal information associated with its users and drivers, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. “This could have led to a big scam involving scammers or hackers, who may have ended up calling drivers and performing a large-scale social engineering attack, or simply these phone numbers and other data could have been exposed on the dark web if reached in the wrong hands,” the researcher told TechCrunch. While this is being managed by external parties, we have come to understand that the survey links have reached some unintended users from the public,” Rapido CEO Aravind Sanka said in a statement emailed to TechCrunch.

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