Recently, Yemeksepeti faced the alleged hacking claim for the second time this year. Confirming that the data of 21 million people were affected in the previous incident, Yemeksepeti denied the current hacking incident, which allegedly seized the personal information of approximately 60 million people. Hackers shared the information of 20 thousand users publicly the other day.
The information of 20 thousand users shared consisted of names, surnames, home addresses and phone numbers. The people whose information was shared had already begun to be disturbed by people they did not know. While Yemeksepeti still remains silent about the incident, necessary action has been taken from the Personal Data Protection Board, which is expected to take action.
An ex officio investigation has been initiated regarding Yemeksepeti:
According to the information received by the AA correspondent, the Personal Data Protection Board launched an ex officio investigation into Yemeksepeti, whose customers’ information was allegedly stolen. The Board will examine Yemeksepeti’s statement that no data theft has been detected. Yemeksepeti had informed one person among 20 thousand people whose data were shared, that such a situation was not the case via live support.
Yemeksepeti’s latest statement on the subject was shared on social media on 16 November. In this statement, it was stated that some malicious people were associated with the company and demanded ransom by reaching the company with the threat of publishing data of unknown origin, expert teams investigated in detail whether there was a data breach in Yemeksepeti systems and no data theft could be detected.
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