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Mercedes-Benz USA accidentally puts out
data from nearly 1,000 customers
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[June 25, 2021]
(Reuters) -Mercedes-Benz USA said on
Thursday sensitive personal information of nearly 1,000 customers and
interested buyers was inadvertently made accessible on a cloud storage
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The Mercedes-Benz logo in Frankfurt, Germany, September 10, 2019.
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No
Mercedes-Benz system was compromised and no files were
maliciously misused, the company added.
The data accidentally made accessible comprised self-reported
credit scores, driver license and social security numbers and
credit card information which was entered by customers and
interested buyers on dealer and company websites between January
2014 and June 2017.
Mercedes said any individual who had credit card information, a
driver's license number or a social security number included in
the data will be offered a complimentary two-year subscription
to a credit monitoring service.
(Reporting by Shreyasee Raj;Editing by Vinay Dwivedi)
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