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Personal details of thousands of UK drivers ‘are exposed in huge data breach’ as car parking app used by councils across Britain shows users other motorists’ information

Posted on April 15, 2017 by Dissent

Rebecca Taylor reports:

Thousands of users of a parking payment app have potentially had their details shared with other customers in what is suspected to be a huge data breach.

Following an app update, hundreds of customers using the RingGo parking tool found other people’s details when they logged into their own accounts.

Read more on Daily Mail.


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