Thieves have reportedly stole Car2Go's 100 cars in Chicago -

Car2Go, the car sharing company has recently suspended its operations in the city of Chicago following the reports that nearly 100 cars were stolen off its platform. Although there are no confirmed reports, but the initial rumors are that many individuals have used the company app to have access to Car2Go’s cars and afterward stole them.

The first news about these car thefts was reported by the CBS Chicago news reporter named Brad Edwards who made a tweet on his Twitter account, “As many as 100 Mercedes / high-end cars missing/stolen,” and that “[many] being used to commit crimes.”

When media asked the Car2Go for comments on it, they said that there is no sort of hack in the app but they do have a pretty serious problem at their hand.

One spokesperson of Car2Go said in an email to tech media, “Since this is an ongoing investigation, the only thing I can confirm right now is that there was no ‘hack’. This is an instance of fraud, isolated to Chicago, and we are currently working with law enforcement. None of our member’s personal or confidential information has been compromised.”

When the spokesperson was pressed hard on the topic of missing cars, he accepted that Yes, nearly 100 cars have been compromised so far.”

As for the Chicago Police Department, they have not made any reports to the media but Edwards himself tweeted an internal statement of the police department which states as follows,

“The Chicago Police Department was alerted by a car rental company that some of their vehicles may have been rented by deceptive or fraudulent means through a mobile app,” read the statement in part. “Due to the information provided by the company, numerous vehicles have been recovered and persons of interest are being questioned.”

Although Car2Go has not revealed as to what kinds of cars were stolen, there is a hunch that many Mercedes-Benz, as well as many smart cars, have been stolen.