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Royal Enfield database exposed personal info, including passwords and vehicle info, of 452k users; now secured

Motorcyles company Royal Enfield exposed a database of at least 452,000 people in January 2020, which included their names, e-mail IDs, phone numbers, encrypted passwords, vehicle-related information and social media links, Bob Diachenko, cyber threat intelligence director at securitydiscovery.com revealed on Twitter. The information was of those customers who had created a profile on Royal Enfield’s official website. MediaNama has seen a redacted copy of the kind of information that Diachenko could access, courtesy the vulnerability on Royal Enfield’s website. "I discovered 3 IPs with misconfigured databases (i.e. set up without password/login) with what appears to be Royal Enfield’s data," he told MediaNama. We have reached out to Royal Enfield for comment. Information about 'privileged users' and RE dealers also exposed: In his tweet, he also said that the exposed database also included information about 1,470 “privileged users” and dealers. According to a redacted copy of the data seen by MediaNama, email, password, name, and phone numbers of “privileged users” of Royal Enfield was compromised. Similarly, information related to at least 3,657 Royal Enfield dealers, including their branch code, IDs, names, emails, passwords, sales codes and online booking information was also exposed, Diachenko told MediaNama. [caption id="attachment_210825" align="aligncenter" width="1270"] The exposed details of customers, shared by Bob Diachenko with MediaNama[/caption] [caption id="attachment_210826" align="aligncenter" width="884"] Information about 'Privileged users' shared by Bob Diachenko with MediaNama[/caption] Diachenko discovered the vulnerability on January 19, and alerted Royal Enfield the same day. He told us that the database was secured the next day. But the vulnerability…

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