Debangana Ghosh reports on an incident involving a claimed Mobikwik breach that this site covered a number of times. The alleged data breach of 3.5 million users at IPO-bound fintech unicorn MobiKwik is under RBI’s scanner. The company has submitted a forensic audit report detailing the data breach, the RBI said in response to a…
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Follow-up: Forensic audit didn’t reveal any unauthorized access to customer data: Mobikwik
Mint reports: Payments firm One Mobikwik Systems Ltd on Monday, in its draft IPO prospectus, said that a forensic audit conducted by an independent expert did not reveal any unauthorized access to its customer database in March. The alleged data breach came to light in March after unknown actors claimed they were selling Mobikwik’s data on the…
“Anonymous” tries to get this site’s post on MobiKwik censored
On March 30, DataBreaches.net posted an update to a controversial data breach that MobiKwik denies (previous coverage can be found here). The controversy subsequently escalated on Twitter when people started complaining that they had found their data in the leaked database and that it corresponded to what they had on file with MobiKwik. In addition…
UPDATE: Seller of alleged MobiKwik data deletes all the data and says “Adios!”
The following post by the original poster/seller appeared on the forum where the MobiKwik data — or what was purported to be MobiKwik data — was offered for sale: Major Update: =========== So, we have received probably 100-150 mails/messages last 24 hours regarding this leak. People praising us for hacking???, people wanting to learn hacking,…
Mobikwik offers master class in how NOT to respond to a breach; researchers scoff, consumers rage
Things have rapidly escalated in the wake of Mobikwik’s repeated denials that the digital wallet and payments network firm had a massive breach. As DataBreaches.net reported on Sunday, more than 8 TB of data from the firm had been listed for sale on a popular forum, data that allegedly included KYC (Know Your Customer) data…
In: Threat actor offers to sell 8 TB of MobiKwik’s personal and financial data on almost 100M consumers
UPDATE1: MobiKwik is denying any breach. DataBreaches.net just received a statement from them: “Some media-crazed so-called security researchers have repeatedly attempted to present concocted files wasting precious time of our organization as well as members of the media. We thoroughly investigated and did not find any security lapses. Our user and company data is completely…