A hacker has leaked a database of about 20 million alleged BigBasket users on a popular hacker forum.
The database includes users’ email address, phone number, address, scrambled password, date of birth, and scores of interactions they had with the service.
Infamous threat actor "ShinyHunters" just leaked the database of "BigBasket, a famous Indian 🇮🇳 online grocery delivery service. (@bigbasket_com)
— Alon Gal (Under the Breach) (@UnderTheBreach) April 25, 2021
20,000,000+ clients affected and information such as emails, names, hashed passwords, birthdates and phone numbers were leaked. pic.twitter.com/tD5TMxNkH7
In November 2020, BigBasket confirmed to Bloomberg News that they had suffered a data breach after ShinyHunter had previously tried to sell the stolen data in private sales.
“There’s been a data breach and we’ve filed a case with the cybercrime police,” BigBasket CEO Hari Menon told Bloomberg News. “The investigators have asked us not to reveal any details as it might hamper the probe.”
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