Hackers had leaked data of around 50,000 customers of Švarod Broliai, a Lithuanian car washing and cleaning services provider, the company said late on Monday. The leaked data includes names, car registration numbers, e-mail addresses, and phone numbers, stolen from the cleaning centres’ booking system.
The company said payment-related information, such as bank account details and payment card details, and other highly sensitive data, such as personal codes and home addresses, were not stored in the leaked database.
According to Švaros Broliai, customer data of other businesses run by the company – tunnel car washes, premises cleaning services, and self-service car washes – were secure, based on the currently available information.
“Today we received information that data of some of the customers of Švaros Broliai car cleaning centres might have been leaked. Unfortunately, this information proved to be correct after checks were made,” Lina Žagarienė, CEO of Švaros Broliai, said in a statement.
It is believed that the customer data were stolen by Russian hackers, she added.
“Hackers from Russia are suspected to have gained unauthorised access to the database of the reservation system of our cleaning centres and to have stolen the information of about 50,000 customers,” Žagarienė said.
Švaros Broliai has blocked the booking system while the investigation is ongoing and has informed its customers, the State Data Protection Inspectorate, and law-enforcement authorities about the incident.
The company operates five car cleaning centres in Vilnius.
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