Bycyklen, Copenhagen’s populace bike-sharing system, announced on Sabbatum that their entire database was erased inward a hack yesteryear unknown hackers on the black betwixt Fri in addition to Saturday, causing their systems to endure out of functioning on Saturday.
“The trend inward which the laid upwardly on was performed is actually primitive, but demonstrates that it was done yesteryear a individual amongst a high marking of noesis of the information technology construction of our system, in addition to at the same time, nosotros tin dismiss run across that the person(s) accept entered using a password,” Bycyklen wrote inward a Facebook post on Sunday, six May.
All of the organisation’s 1,860 bikes were affected yesteryear the hack, which had to endure manually restored yesteryear Bycyklen staff, out of which entirely 200 were able to endure restored yesteryear the organisation’s staff on Sunday.
The scheme plant yesteryear using Android tablets attached to the bikes that connect to Bycyklen’s database to tape the details of bikes spread across the city. Due to the erasure of the database, users were unable to unlock the bikes, in addition to the staff had to manually reboot the Android tablets subsequently tracking downward the bikes.
The scheme launched a “treasure hunt” to runway downward the bicycles for the same, offering users an hr of gratuitous riding fourth dimension equally a vantage for finding one.
In an update posted on its website on Monday, Bycyklen assured users that subsequently analysing their servers, at that topographic point accept been “no signs that nosotros accept lost data.”
“The laid upwardly on has been aimed straight at our business, non our users,” the companionship wrote. “We create non shop payment carte du jour information. The entirely information nosotros driblet dead along is our users' electronic mail addresses, telephone numbers in addition to their PIN codes for the Bycyklen bikes. In our databases nosotros role "salted password hashing", that is, all PINs are encrypted in addition to cannot endure read or recreated, neither yesteryear Bycyklen nor whatever other player."
Currently active bicycles tin dismiss endure establish using the organisation’s “Find a bike” page.
