The Montreal-based car-sharing service says hackers were unable to get access to members’ credit card numbers.
The company has hired an IT security firm to affect the breach.
Communauto, the Montreal-based car-sharing service, confirmed on Friday that its computer systems were hit with a cyber attack over the holidays that compromised the personal information of some of its clients, including member numbers, names as well as email and civic addresses.
However, the company insists the hackers were “unable to get their hands on the credit card information that is stored with a third-party service.”
“This cyber attack has … brought many of our activities to a halt, and this explains some delays within the management of accounts payable and invoicing,” Communauto CEO Benoît Robert said in a statement.
The company has hired an IT security firm to affect the breach.
“Following negotiations with the hackers, this firm has been reasonably assured that any data to which they might have had access has been destroyed,” Robert added.
