Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2018-04-23 00:00:00
Affected organization: Careem
Affected country: United Arab Emirates
Industry: Transportation and Warehousing
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Careem, Uber's main ride-hailing app rival in the Middle East, is hit by a cyber attack that compromises the data of 14 million users. The breach was discovered on January 14.