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New Delhi. There is a big data leak in India. In this, millions of bank transaction records of Indian banks were exposed on the Internet. The data leaked from an unsafe Amazon S3 Cloud Server, including sensitive information like account holders’ names, bank account number, transaction amount and contact information.

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Learn how it was revealed?

Cybercecurity Company Upguard detected this data leak in late August. His researchers found around 2.73 lakh PDF files on the Amazon-hosted storage server, with bank transfer records of Indian customers. Most of these files were associated with the National Automated Clearing House (Nach). NACH is a centralized system, which banks use for regular payments such as large-scale salary transfer, loan repayments and electricity-water bills.

Know which banks were leaked?

According to the upgard, this data was connected to at least 38 banks and financial institutions. The most documents named Aye Finance, while the name of State Bank of India (SBI) was also present in many documents.

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Know who will take responsibility?

The information of this leak was given to A Finance, National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) and other institutions. But till early September, this data remained open on the Internet and new files were also added daily. After this, CERT-in was informed and the server was secured. However, till now any institution has refused to take responsibility for this negligence. NPCI says their system is safe and no data leaked. A Finance and State Bank of India did not make any official statement on the matter.

great concern

This incident has once again raised serious questions about data security and digital privacy in India. When and how will customers’ private data be safe? There is no concrete answer to this yet.

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