70 Lakh Indians Private Data Leaked
- 10-Dec-2020
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Personal data of over 70 lakh Indian debit and credit card users have been scraped and posted online, according to information from independent Indian cyber security researcher, Rajshekhar Rajaharia. The information, which Rajaharia found, was scraped from Dark Web forums where the data is being circulated among potential customers. In security parlance, such data can be used for a wide range of nefarious cyber activities, including indentity theft, online impersonation, phishing attacks, spamming and other related cyber criminal activities.
The data sheets, however, do not contain the full credit card numbers or any identifiable credit card details of users. Instead, the data sheets include phone numbers, credit card type, income status and annual earnings, date of birth, city of residence, and in some cases, identification document type and number. Given the nature of the data put together, the folder appears to be a collated list from various sources, which themselves were likely scraped from unsecuredly saved sensitive data by unknown third party service and operation partners that banks often work with.
