back to article Payment app MobiKwik denies customer data was stolen from it, has no idea how the info ended up on the dark web: Maybe it was your fault?

Indian payment app maker MobiKwik has denied its security has been breached, saying that if it's true, as has been claimed, that its customers' information has appeared on the dark web, then some other platform was totally responsible for that. "Some users have reported that their data is visible on the dark web," reads a …

  1. RM Myers
    FAIL

    the times they aren't a-changin

    Nice to see that the "shoot the messenger" approach to handling a security breach is still alive and well in 2021.

    1. Pascal Monett Silver badge
      Coat

      Re: the times they aren't a-changin

      I'm just waiting for the likely groveling apologies when it is incontrovertedly proven that yes, it is MobiKwik's data that is out there.

      Now, where's my popcorn again ?

      1. Grease Monkey Silver badge

        Re: the times they aren't a-changin

        Grovelling apology?

        When it turns out to be genuine data they will just claim that a large number of users decided to upload their data to the dark web simultaneously in order to harm MobiKwik.

        There is a point where the lie gets so big that it's impossible to start telling the truth without damaging yourself even further.

  2. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    They should just do the needful, revert back to you and own up.

    1. Short Fat Bald Hairy Man

      Done all that

      They have done the needful, and found no problems.

      They have reverted back, just not in the way expected.

      So, nothing to own up to,

  3. Howard Sway Silver badge

    entirely possible that any user could have uploaded her or his information on multiple platforms

    But massively improbable that every single one of your users who had their data leaked had done that to the same platforms.

    Even the massive social media sites aren't all used by the exact same group of users.

  4. rjed
    Stop

    And that is why GDPR is needed ...

    With GDPR you will have to shell out 4% of your annual revenue as fines and thus an organization would be extra diligent before scrapping such charges.

    Some companies are extra careful (which means they devote more resources) towards security and privacy. If other companies want to compete in the same space and do not ensure the same rigor towards security and privacy might end up saving on these resources that will add up to their bottom line. All this is possible because of the lack of regulations and of-course CXOs who care more about the bottom line than their users.

  5. Chillihead666

    Had to look up crore

    Apparently it is a numbering unit equivalent to 10 million. Sooo... 110 million cardholders posted their details on the dark web? Or on different sites that all got hacked and posted on the dark web?

    Don't see it myself.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Headmaster

      Re: Had to look up crore

      11 crore - eleventy million.

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