OnePlus’ customer data has been breached, yet again. The smartphone maker made an announcement a few hours back stating that some of its customer’s information like “name, contact number, email, and shipping address within certain orders” may have been exposed by the most recent data breach. However, information like payment information, passwords and accounts are safe.
OnePlus hasn’t given out an exact number of affected users, however, the company said that it has already sent out emails to the users whose data has been breached. If you were one of the affected customers, you should have received a mail similar to this sometime in the past couple of days. If you haven’t got an email from the company, then your data wasn’t breached.
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The official OnePlus website seems to be the point of the breach but the company assured that they have thoroughly inspected the website to ensure there are no similar security flaws. The company also adds that affected users ‘may receive spam and phishing emails as a result of this incident’.
This isn’t the first time OnePlus had a security breach. Last year, in January, credit card information of nearly 40,000 OnePlus customers was breached through the company’s OnePlus.net website. Unfortunately, the company has not revealed the scale of this particular breach.
Security breaches are never good for a company. However, the company assures that it will partner “with a world-renowned security platform next month, and will launch an official bug bounty program by the end of December”. This is definitely the right way moving forward, however, OnePlus should have probably done this immediately after the first breach to avoid a second incident.
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