{"id":7474,"date":"2021-06-25T08:58:29","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T12:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=7474"},"modified":"2021-07-23T14:04:40","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T18:04:40","slug":"mercedes-benz-accidentally-reveals-data-from-1000-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/mercedes-benz-accidentally-reveals-data-from-1000-customers\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes-Benz Accidentally Reveals Data From 1,000 Customers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On Thursday, Mercedes-Benz USA said the personal data of nearly 1,000 customers and interested buyers had been accidentally made available on a cloud storage platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Data that was provided inadvertently includes the credit card details entered by customers and potential buyers, driving license and social security numbers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the company said it was not a product of an attack because none of its systems were compromised and no file was maliciously misused, it promises to offer a free two-year subscription to the credit monitoring service to anyone who had credit card information, a driver&#8217;s license number or a social security number leaked.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-daimler-cyber\/mercedes-benz-usa-accidentally-puts-out-data-from-nearly-1000-customers-idUSKCN2E02L2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in Reuters.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, Mercedes-Benz USA said the personal data of nearly 1,000 customers and interested buyers had been accidentally made available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7474"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7501,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7474\/revisions\/7501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}