Customer data from India's Bank of Baroda leaked online, source and researcher say
A cybersecurity researcher and a source acquainted with the situation claim that internal documents and customer data from India's state-run Bank of Baroda have been released on the dark web. Following the implementation of preliminary containment measures, the lender said in a statement on Monday that it had initiated a forensic investigation and was collaborating with pertinent authorities.
A compromised employee email account led to "unauthorized access to certain data," according to the Mumbai-based bank. "The bank's core banking systems were not accessed and continue to remain secure," the bank further stated.
Customer information, identity documents, loan paperwork, and internal audit records are among the compromised data, according to cybersecurity researcher and Cashless Consumer creator Srikanth L.
The number of impacted clients was not immediately apparent. Requests for comment were not immediately answered by the Reserve Bank of India or CERT-In, India's cybersecurity regulator. The disclosure coincides with mounting worries about the cybersecurity threats that big businesses and financial institutions that hold enormous volumes of consumer and corporate data face.
According to metadata analysis of the website, the data first surfaced on a dark web site on Saturday night and was marketed as a cache with over 700GB of data, according to Srikanth.
Component design and specification data connected to Apple and Tesla were published on the dark web in June as a result of a cyberattack on Tata Electronics, an Apple supplier.
World Leaks, a ransomware gang, released files about India's biggest nuclear reactor on the black web earlier this month.
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