(Beijing Comprehensive News) Some user information of Weilai Automobile, a Chinese electric car dealer listed in the United States, was stolen by hackers.Essence
Lu Long, the person in charge of the Weilai Information Security Commission, issued a statement on data security incidents on the Weilai official community on Tuesday (December 20), saying that the company received an external email on December 11 that it had internal data from WeilaiEssenceThe other party asked Weilai to pay $ 2.25 million (S $ 3.04 million) equivalent Bitcoin, otherwise the stolen data will be leaked.
After internal investigation, Weilai confirmed that the stolen data was the basic information and vehicle sales information of some users before August 2021.Li Bin, the founder of Weilai, apologized to users and promised to be responsible for losses caused by users.
Weilai emphasized in the statement that stealing and trading such data is illegal and criminal. The company severely condemns this and resolutely does not bow to the Internet criminal act, and has reported this incident to the relevant regulatory authorities.
According to the Beijing Commercial Daily, with the rapid development of the smart car market, car data processing capacity is increasing, and the exposed hidden dangers of car data risks have become increasingly prominent.In the past two years, Volkswagen, GM and Toyota have encountered user information security problems.
