Eatstreet, the online food ordering service disclosed a security breach

Eatstreet, the online food ordering service, disclosed a security breach that exposed customer payment card data and details of partners

EatStreet, an online and mobile food ordering service, disclosed a security breach that exposed customer payment card data and details of delivery and restaurant partners

Attackers breached the company network on May 3 stole data from its database. On May 17, the company discovered the intrusion and locked out the attacker.

Stolen data includes names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, as well as financial data (i.e. bank accounts, routing numbers, credit card numbers, expiration dates and card verification codes), billing addresses)..

“On May 3, 2019, an unauthorized third party gained access to our database, which we discovered on May 17, 2019. The unauthorized third party was able to acquire information that was in our database on May 3, 2019. We were able, however, to promptly terminate the unauthorized access to our systems when we discovered the incident.” reads the data breach notification letter sent to delivery and restaurant partners.

EatStreet currently offers its services to “over 15,000 restaurants in more than 1,100 cities,” the company’s Android app has over 100,000 installs as of June 5.

EatStreet promptly alerted the credit card payment processors and “hired a leading external IT forensics firm to respond to and investigate the incident. We audited our systems to validate that there was no other unauthorized access.”

At the time, law enforcement agencies are not investigating the incident:

“EatStreet continues to work with outside experts to identify other measures it can take to improve its security controls. While our investigation is ongoing, there was no law enforcement investigation that delayed notification to you.”

“In addition, we have enhanced the security of our systems, including reinforcing multi-factor authentication, rotating credential keys and reviewing and updating coding practices,”

According to ZDNet, the hacker who breached the company is Gnosticplayers, who made the headlines because between February and April disclosed the existence of some massive unreported data breaches in fifth rounds. The list of victims includes Canva, 500px, UnderArmor, ShareThis, GfyCat, Ge.tt, Evite, and others.

The hacker took credit for the data breach while discussing with ZDNet about the Canva hack allegations last month.

At the time it is not clear the extent of the security breach, but the hacker claimed he stole over six million user records.

“In an email to ZDNet today, the hacker claimed he was in the possession of over six million user records he took from the company’s servers. Over the past few months, this hacker has stolen and put up for sale 1,071 billion user credentials from 45 companies. “

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Pierluigi Paganini

(SecurityAffairs – EatStreet, hacking)

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Pierluigi Paganini

Pierluigi Paganini is member of the ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and Information Security) Threat Landscape Stakeholder Group and Cyber G7 Group, he is also a Security Evangelist, Security Analyst and Freelance Writer. Editor-in-Chief at "Cyber Defense Magazine", Pierluigi is a cyber security expert with over 20 years experience in the field, he is Certified Ethical Hacker at EC Council in London. The passion for writing and a strong belief that security is founded on sharing and awareness led Pierluigi to find the security blog "Security Affairs" recently named a Top National Security Resource for US. Pierluigi is a member of the "The Hacker News" team and he is a writer for some major publications in the field such as Cyber War Zone, ICTTF, Infosec Island, Infosec Institute, The Hacker News Magazine and for many other Security magazines. Author of the Books "The Deep Dark Web" and “Digital Virtual Currency and Bitcoin”.