Lazada’s grocery delivery business—or RedMart—has suffered a breach that compromised many of its users’ sensitive information in Singapore.
The e-commerce platform’s own in-house cybersecurity team has discovered the issue last Thursday when it saw an illicit access to the customer database for RedMart.
The Alibaba-owned company claims that the stolen information was “18 months out of date.”
Originally a service on its own, Lazada bought RedMart in 2016 until subsequently incorporated into the former’s application last March 2020. Coincidentally, also the same time when the database for RedMart was last updated.
Previously reported in Singapore’s Channel News Asia, it was said that the hacking incident draws from an illegal trade where personal data are being sold for money, after coming across the topic at a certain online forum.
Lazada reports that as many as 1.1 million of RedMart’s customers were affected by the hack, resulting in a leak of compromising information, including personal names, addresses, phone numbers, encrypted passwords, and partial info on credit card numbers.
Subsequently, all affected individuals are forced to be logged out from the system and are being prompted to change their passwords. Lazada also took due measures to block access to the database as the issue arose.
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