Data Breaches are not new to India, This is the story of A Digital wallet and Financial Company of India
This year Mobikwik faced a Cyber Attack that exposed almost 11 Crore
Indian customers data, this is not the first time the Company faced such a
Cyber Attack earlier in 2010 they faced a similar attack by unknown Hackers
Earlier the company denied the cyber attack and threatened those who claimed
that the Mobikwik data breach was real, they even tried to hide the truth
Story Highlights
- The leak contains more than 8 TB of data
- The hacker claimed he has access to MobiKwik servers since Jan 2021
- Breached data includes personal details, KYC info and so on
- Company Responded After Almost 25 days
In February The news became a buzz, after an individual security researcher Rajshekhar Rajaharia tweet, which he states that there was a data breach with Mobikwik Company,
According to his claims, the unknown hacker has access to Mobikwik data since January 2021,
In March Mobikwik openly tweeted claiming there wasn't any data breach with
Mobikwik and the Security Researcher spreading fake news to gain media
attention, and to damage the company reputation, also they stated they will
take strict action against the false news
later the Mobikwik users started searching their data on the darknet site
created by the unknown hacker
Mobikwik CEO blamed their customers for the data available on the dark web, he
said we didn't found any security vulnerabilities on our side, the data might
be from any other source where the users might uploaded
A media-crazed so-called security researcher has repeatedly over the last week presented concocted files wasting precious time of our organization while desperately trying to grab media attention.We thoroughly investigated his allegations and did not find any security lapses. 1/n
— MobiKwik (@MobiKwik) March 4, 2021
it's not yet over, many people started busting the truth of Mobikwik Company's Data leak and still, the company denied the breach
Troy Hunt, Creator of @haveibeenpwned tweeted supporting the Security Researcher
Never *ever* behave like @MobiKwik has in this thread from 25 days ago. Try Googling “mobikwik data breach” now... https://t.co/L5E4xc1ey0
— Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) March 29, 2021