Citi Bike leaks private info of 1,174 customers by accident

Just before launching, the New York bicycle-sharing program Citi Bike accidentally leaked the private account information of 1,174 of its customers, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The data was exposed via a software glitch and included customers' names, contact information, credit card numbers and security codes, passwords, and birth dates.
While the data leak apparently took place on April 15, a few weeks before the program launched in the city, the company didn't notify the affected customers until July 19. According to the Wall Street Journal, Citi Bike discovered the breach at the end of May and corrected it immediately. "Notifications such as these are standard legal disclosures in any case where there is even the potential for information to have been improperly accessed. This potential security issue affected 1,174 of NYC Bike Share's approximately 180,000 customers," New York City Department of Transportation spokesman Seth Solomonow told CNET.