After a hacker made 13TB data of nearly 18 crore ordersof Domino's India with key details public on the Dark Web, Jubilant Foodworksthat owns the master franchisee for Domino's Pizza in India sent a letter tousers on Tuesday, saying that it has hired a global forensic agency toinvestigate the matter.
Domino's India said it suffered an information securityincident on March 24, 2021, wherein its systems were attacked by a hacker.
"We moved quickly to contain the breach and hired anexternal agency to do an impact assessment. Domino's, as a policy, does notstore financial details of users such as complete credit card number, CVV,passwords, etc and therefore, no such information was compromised," thecompany said in the open letter.
Independent cybersecurity researcher RajshekharRajaharia first reported that Domino's India has been hit by a hacker again,after Alon Gal who is CTO of cybersecurity firm Hudson Rock, claimed in Aprilthat credit card details of nearly 10 lakh people who purchased online onDomino's Pizza India was allegedly being sold for over Rs 4 crore on the DarkWeb.
According to Rajaharia, data of 18 crore orders fromDomino's Pizza in India has now become public, that contains name, email, phonenumber and even the GPS location of the users.
"We have lodged a formal complaint with the relevantauthorities and also filed a complaint with the cybercrime cell and has hireda global forensic agency to investigate the matter, to try and identify theperpetrators behind the attack," Jubilant Foodworks said.
According to Rajaharia, the same person who earlierhacked financial services company MobiKwik has compromised Domino's India.
"The earlier hacker failed to receive ransom andsold the data to some unknown hacker, who has now posted the 13TB data ofDomino's India on the Dark Web," Rajaria had told IANS.