The data leak cases have increased in India. Now, an Indian multinational public sector bank and financial services statutory body, The State Bank of India (SBI) 12000 employees’ sensitive data has been leaked on Telegram channels.
What is sensitive data leaked at SBI?
Not only this, it is also claimed that the threat actor has access to the financial details of millions of consumers. They have also claimed to compromise data on publicly accessible leak forums.
The screenshots show that the threat actor has access to a wide range of financial information, including account numbers, PINs, and transaction history.
SBI employee information such as account numbers, photo IDs, work IDs, IPs, phone numbers, addresses, names, and other personal details has been leaked.
Recently, an account with 608 followers “Spread Chaos Comrades!” shared a file “SBI Employee Data Dump.” This was then circulated on other Telegram channels and on social media.
Who has been handling the Matter?
The cybersecurity expert, Saumay Srivastava handling the matter said to India Today, “threat actors attack an infrastructure either by exploiting any active/passive vulnerabilities or using RaaS – Ransomware as a service, to attack any active infra.”
“The banking sector is actively under target and this results in leaking sensitive data of clients and employees causing massive damage to bank’s privacy and reputation”, he mentioned.
“In previous breaches of some prominent banks, it is seen that many times data is unknowingly exposed on indexable platforms and hence easily accessed by threat actors”, he said.
Saumay further said, “Important information such as a bank account number, client name, and address must be masked if necessary for testing.”
“In terms of the latest exploits and vulnerabilities, banks should actively look for threat intelligence reports of the banking sector to understand major TTPs (Tactic, techniques, and procedures) of the latest threats/vulnerabilities and mitigate accordingly predicting upcoming threats to their infrastructure,” he added.
