Crores of Indian users’ data stolen, debit and credit cards are being sold on the dark web

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New Delhi: The news of data theft of credit and debit card users of Indian users have been revealed. Cyber ​​Security Researcher Rajshekhar Rajaharia of Cyber ​​Security Affairs claimed that the data of more than 10 crore credit and debit card users of India is being sold on the Dark Web. Most of the data on the dark web has been leaked from the server of Bangalore’s Digital Payments Gateway Jaspe.

Cybersecurity researcher had also claimed data theft earlier
In December 2020, Rajasekhar claimed that the credit and debit card data of more than 70 lakh users of the country was leaked. The security researcher has said that the leaked data includes the first, last four digits of their card in addition to the name, phone number, and email address of the users. The leaked data may be linked to the payments platform Jaspay, with the help of merchants like Amazon, MakeMyTrip, and Swiggy.

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The data on the dark web includes all this information
Researcher Rajasekhar says that this data is being sold on the dark web. The data on the dark web includes transactions between March 2017 to August 2020. This includes the card numbers (four digits of the beginning and end) of many Indian users, their expiry dates and customer IDs. However, information related to different orders and payments made for them has not been mentioned in this. With the help of data on the dark web, cardholders can be made victims of phishing attacks.

Data being sold at undisclosed price through bitcoin
Rajaharia claims that the data is being sold on the dark web through cryptocurrency bitcoin at an undisclosed price. Hackers are also making contact for this data through Telegram. The payment card follows the industry data security standard (PCIDSS) in storing users’ data. If hackers can use a hash algorithm to create a card fingerprint, then they can also decrypt the masked card number. In this situation, the account of all 10 crore cardholders may be in danger.

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