La Malle Postale

La Malle Postale, a transportation service that provides hikers with rides on well-known French hiking trails, exposed the private information and messages of its customers.

A data leak on La Malle Postale's system that exposed the client's personal information was found by the Cybernews investigation team.

Names, phone numbers, emails, private SMS messages, passwords, and employee credentials were among the data that was exposed.

Nearly 90,000 consumers' names, emails, and phone numbers were among the exposed personal information.

More than 13,000 SMS texts exchanged between the business and its clients were also stored in the datastore.

Source: https://securityaffairs.com/146191/data-breach/personal-info-of-90k-hikers-leaked-by-french-tourism-company-la-malle-postale.html

TPRM report: https://scoringcyber.rankiteo.com/company/la-malle-postale

"id": "lam94424923",
"linkid": "la-malle-postale",
"type": "Data Leak",
"date": "05/2023",
"severity": "85",
"impact": "4",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with customers data leaks"

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                                                'type_of_data_compromised': ['Names',
                                                                             'Emails',
                                                                             'Phone '
                                                                             'numbers']},
                                               {'number_of_records_exposed': 13000,
                                                'type_of_data_compromised': ['SMS '
                                                                             'texts']}],
                        'industry': 'Transportation',
                        'location': 'France',
                        'name': 'La Malle Postale',
                        'type': 'Transportation Service'}],
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                 'personally_identifiable_information': True,
                 'type_of_data_compromised': ['Names',
                                              'Phone numbers',
                                              'Emails',
                                              'Private SMS messages',
                                              'Passwords',
                                              'Employee credentials']},
 'description': 'La Malle Postale, a transportation service that provides '
                'hikers with rides on well-known French hiking trails, exposed '
                'the private information and messages of its customers. A data '
                "leak on La Malle Postale's system that exposed the client's "
                'personal information was found by the Cybernews investigation '
                'team.',
 'impact': {'data_compromised': ['Names',
                                 'Phone numbers',
                                 'Emails',
                                 'Private SMS messages',
                                 'Passwords',
                                 'Employee credentials']},
 'references': [{'source': 'Cybernews investigation team'}],
 'title': 'La Malle Postale Data Leak',
 'type': 'Data Leak'}