Customer details stolen in Renault UK cyber attack

Renault UK has go the latest car institution to beryllium deed by a cyber attack.

The steadfast said immoderate lawsuit idiosyncratic information had been accessed during a breach of 1 of its third-party information providers, but that nary fiscal accusation oregon passwords had been compromised.

A spokesperson said this included "customer names, addresses, dates of birth, gender, telephone numbers, conveyance recognition numbers and conveyance registration details".

It comes aft Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) was forced to suspend accumulation astatine its UK factories pursuing a cyber onslaught connected 31 August.

JLR said earlier this week that it planned to resume constricted production "in the coming days", but nary steadfast day has been announced.

Renault UK said nary of its systems had been compromised, and manufacturing has not been affected.

A spokesperson added: "The third-party [data] supplier has confirmed this is an isolated incidental which has been contained, and we are moving with it to guarantee that each due actions are being taken. We person notified each applicable authorities...

"We privation to apologise to each affected customers. Data privateness is of the upmost value to america and we profoundly regret that this has occurred."

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Renault UK confirmed it was successful the process of contacting each customers affected and advised them "to beryllium cautious of immoderate unsolicited requests for idiosyncratic information".

It refused to accidental however galore were affected "for ongoing information information reasons".

Retailers, airports and adjacent a nursery chain person been targeted by cyber criminals during a spate of online attacks successful caller months.