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Bigbasket faces data leak fear

Cyber intelligence firm Cyble said that a hacker has put data allegedly belonging to e-commerce platform on sale for around Rs 30 lakh

PTI New Delhi Published 09.11.20, 02:26 AM
The company has filed a police complaint in this regard with the Cyber Crime Cell in Bangalore and is verifying claims made by cyber experts.

The company has filed a police complaint in this regard with the Cyber Crime Cell in Bangalore and is verifying claims made by cyber experts. Shutterstock

Grocery e-commerce platform Bigbasket has faced a potential data breach which could have leaked details of its around 2 crore users, according to cyber intelligence firm Cyble.

The company has filed a police complaint in this regard with the Cyber Crime Cell in Bangalore and is verifying claims made by cyber experts. Cyble said that a hacker has put data allegedly belonging to Bigbasket on sale for around Rs 30 lakh.

“In the course of our routine dark web monitoring, the research team at Cyble found the database of Big Basket for sale in a cyber crime market, being sold for over $40,000. The leak contains a database portion; with the table name ‘member_member’. The file contains close to 20 million user data,” Cyble said in its blog. It added the data put on sale includes names, email IDs, password hashes, contact numbers (mobile and phone), addresses, date of birth, location, and IP addresses of login.

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