Europcar Data Breach Affects up to 200,000 Customers

May 6, 2025

INCIDENT

A hacker breached the GitLab repositories of multinational car-rental company Europcar Mobility Group and stole source code for Android and iOS applications, as well as some personal information belonging to up to 200,000 customers. The actor tried to extort the company by threatening to publish 37GB of data that includes backups and details about the company’s cloud infrastructure and internal applications.

Europcar is in the process of notifying all impacted customers and has notified the data protection authority in the country. It is unclear how the threat actor managed to gain access to Europcar’s code repositories but many recent breaches were fueled by credentials stolen in infostealer compromises.

Incident Date

April 3, 2025

Location

France

Estimated Cost


No cost values disclosed.

Type of Malware

No Malware identified

Threat Source

No threat source identified