Ryde scooter rental hacked, customer
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Ryde scooter rental hacked, customer data leaked in major breach

The electric scooter company Ryde has been the victim of a major data breach in which hackers stole customer information.

According to the company, all customer accounts are affected and the information that has been leaked includes phone numbers, email addresses, dates of birth, parts of payment card numbers and payment history, reports SVT Nyheter.

It was the night before Sunday that the Norwegian electric scooter company discovered that someone unauthorized had gained access to its systems and copied customer information.

A total of 4.5 million customer accounts in Sweden, Norway, Finland and Germany were affected by the breach, of which 1.6 million accounts were in Norway, according to the newspaper VG.

Ryde has reported the data breach to the Norwegian Data Protection Authority and urges its customers to be extra vigilant.

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