Honda Car India leaked over 50,000 users Personal information of it’s Honda Connect App which is stored in the publicly unsecured Amazon AWS S3 Buckets.

Experts recently discovered two public unsecured Inside of the AWS Bucket contains an unprotected database which maintained by Honda Connect App.

Honda-Connect is a smartphone app that boasts that it gives the user a sense of security and safety also it gives a variety of futures for its users.

Important future of Honda Connect App including  Periodic service alerts, Service Booking/Editing, Feedback System, Nearby Dealer and Fuel pump locator, My Documents (to store important documents for your car), Fuel Log, SoS (a one-click solution to let family and friends know your exact location in an emergency).

Leaked Data From Honda Connect App

Unsecured Amazon AWS S3 Buckets leaked very sensitive personal information such as ed names, phone numbers for both users and their trusted contacts, passwords, gender, email addresses for both users and their trusted contacts, plus information about their cars including VIN, Connect IDs, and more.

This leak has been reported by Security researchers from kromtech, they are not the first one who find this leak but before that security researcher @Random_Robbie (twitter), who left them the following note called poc.txt, which was dated February 28, 2018

Aslo he warned the S3 Bucket users that “If you find POC.txt in your S3 bucket you need to secure it asap!”

If you find POC.txt in your S3 bucket you need to secure it asap!

— Random Robbie – WordPress N day exploits (@Random_Robbie) December 5, 2017

Leaked information could be useful for cybercriminals that they will use it for various malicious activities such as access to everything on that phone, but specifically regarding this app when paired with a Connected Device: where someone’s car is currently located, where they went, where they typically drive, how they drive, and where they start and stop.

Also, Phone numbers and Email addresses will be used for launch a very targeted spear phishing attack.