Data of 100 million credit, debit cardholders leaked on Dark Web

Breach after attack on Bengaluru-based fintech service provider Juspay's server

The first week of the year has recorded what could well be the biggest data leak in a while. The transaction data of about 100 million Indians, reportedly lifted from fintech service provider Juspay, was found being sold on the Dark Web.

The Bengaluru-based digital payments platform, Juspay, processes transactions for many customers including big guns like Amazon, MakeMyTrip, Airtel, Flipkart, Uber and Swiggy. Juspay acknowledged a breach on August 18, 2020, but the data seems to have surfaced only now as a dump offered for sale — by several persons or one person using many IDs — on the Dark