Boat suffers data breach: Personal data of 7.5 mn users leaked on dark web

Indian consumer wearable brand boAt has suffered a massive data breach, where personal information of more than 7.5 million customers has been compromised.

The breach, allegedly carried out by a hacker known as ShopifyGUY, has resulted in the exposure of sensitive personal information such as names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, and customer IDs, according to media reports.

The threat actor has put out around 2 Gigabytes of personally identifiable information (PII) of boAt users on dark web forums, claimed the reports.