Taiwan fines car renting giant iRent for customer data spill

Taiwanese authorities have fined car rental and ride sharing giant iRent after TechCrunch revealed the company was spilling customers’ data and identity documents onto the open web for months.
According to local media reports, iRent, which is owned by Taiwanese auto conglomerate Hotai Motor, received two separate fines for failing to adequately protect the data of more than 400,000 customers.
In a press release on Thursday, Taiwan’s highways division under the transport ministry said iRent violated the country’s data protection rules and fined the company NT$200,000 (about $6

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