Mobikwik denied the news of leaked data of millions

Mobikwik denied the news of leaked data of millions


The company has released its clarification on the news of the online payment platform Mobikwik’s data being leaked. Gurugram based digital wallet company Mobikwik has denied the news of data breech, saying that its users’ data is safe. Earlier, it was reported that the data of Mobikwik users has been leaked in large numbers. Mobikwik denied the news of data leaks and said that he has not yet found any strong evidence about it. The company said that it is very serious about its data security and she fully follows data security laws. Mobikwik’s spokesperson said via an email that the company is subject to strict compliance measures under its PCI-DSS and ISO certificates, including annual safety audit and quarterly entry tests that protect the security of the platform.

Earlier, a researcher claimed in his report that a link was circulating on the dark web, with the payment app Mobikwik’s user data leaked about 8.2 terabytes (8,200GB) size. Units 360 was first discovered about this data violation in February. The data that was with some hackers group till some time ago is now available on the search engine. The leaked data includes users’ KYC information including their address, phone number, Aadhaar card information etc. In this, the data of 3.5 million i.e. about 35 Lath users is being told.

A security researcher Rajasekhar Rajaharia (@rajaharia) information about Mobikwik’s data leaking in February Shared Was done, but the company denied this claim. Rajasekhar also had a screenshot of conversation with Mobikwik Shared Were.

On Monday, well -known French hacker Robert Baptiste (Elliot Alderson) also tweeted this data leaks and described it as “the biggest KYC data leak in history”. He wrote “congrats Mobikwik …” sharing the screenshot of the leaked data. However, due to Twitter policy, he Remove the tweet Gave. He also gave information about the search engine that was built on the dark web by hackers and included some users’ information.

Many users have posted on social media that they were able to find their information through this search engine.

However, Units 360 was not able to verify independently whether the available information was related to the alleged Mobikwik data breech.

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