Databreach at Montreal Car-Sharing Service Communauto

April 6, 2023

INCIDENT

Communauto, the Montreal-based car-sharing service, confirmed on Friday that its computer systems were hit with a cyber attack. The attack compromised the personal information of some of its clients, including member numbers, names as well as email and civic addresses. The cyber hackers couldn’t get their hands on user passwords and credit card numbers.

In a letter sent to subscribers, the president and CEO of Communauto, Benoît Robert, explains that the company managed to obtain “reasonable assurance that the data to which [les cyberpirates] could have had access ”were destroyed. This attack “paralyzed many of our activities and explains some delays in the management of accounts payable and invoicing”, he indicated. The investigation is continuing to determine more precisely what data was stolen.

Incident Date

December 26, 2020

Location

Canada

Estimated Cost


No cost values disclosed.

Victims

Type of Malware

No Malware identified

Threat Source

No threat source identified