Data of 6 lakh HDFC Bank customers’ exposed; bank denies [details]

After studies surfaced that non-public data of practically 6 lakh prospects of HDFC Bank was allegedly leaked on the Dark Web, the bank mentioned on Tuesday there was no knowledge leak of its prospects.

According to Privacy Affairs web site, the HDFC Bank prospects’ samples have been posted on the hacker discussion board and “the posted knowledge seems to be real”.

HDFC Bank Cares Twitter deal with on Tuesday posted that “there isn’t a knowledge leak at HDFC Bank and our techniques haven’t been breached or accessed in any unauthorised method”.

“We stay assured of our techniques. However we deal with the matter of our prospects knowledge safety with utmost seriousness and we proceed to,” mentioned the bank.

Data allegedly consists of full names, electronic mail addresses, bodily addresses, and delicate monetary knowledge, the report talked about.

Cyber-criminals allegedly posted the information on the market on a well-liked hacker discussion board.

The criminals offered knowledge samples whereas demanding cash for the complete database.

“The criminals defined that the hack was allegedly obtained only recently, in early March 2023, and comprises knowledge from May 2022 to March 2023,” mentioned the report.

Several Twitter customers on March 6 posted about going through outages, failed transfers and even rip-off messages on the official (*6*) Bank cell app.

There has been a surge in spam bank textual content messages within the latest previous.

(With inputs from IANS)