Mumbai, Oct 30 AU Small Finance Bank on Friday said it is investigating a potential data leak involving vehicle loan customers, after a hacker group claimed to have breached the lender’s cyber defences.
“AU Small Finance Bank is investigating a potential data leak involving a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform managed and hosted by Salesforce, which holds limited data relating to our vehicle loan customers. We reaffirm that the Bank’s own systems remain unaffected and all banking services are operating normally,” the lender said in a statement.
The bank’s “own systems remain unaffected”, and the SFB’s operations are running normally, it added.
Earlier, a hacker group claimed to have breached KYC records, identity documents and other important data pertaining to AU Small Finance Bank, according to threat intelligence platform Hackmanac.
The ScarlettGroup hacking group claims to have breached AU Small Finance Bank and threatened to leak sensitive customer and internal corporate data, Hackmanac said in a social media post.
“According to the attackers, the compromised information includes KYC records, personal identification documents, PAN and Aadhaar details, credit reports, bank statements, loan applications, signed agreements, insurance records, CRM data, employee information, login histories, and audit logs,” Hackmanac said on Thursday.
However, the threat intelligence platform said that verification of the claim is still pending.
It can be noted that there have been a slew of cyberattacks reported in recent days, with reports pointing to the country’s largest lender State Bank of India (SBI), second-largest private sector lender ICICI Bank, and others as potentially impacted entities.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had also warned of cyberattacks to weaken the Indian economy, and asked all stakeholders to look into the aspect.
The PM had made the remarks at an event where he inaugurated an RBI cybersecurity training institute at Bhubaneshwar.
Shares of AU Small Finance Bank closed 1.76 per cent lower at Rs 864 apiece on the BSE.
(PTI News)
