Data of 7 million Indians exposed online while loading them on CSC BHIM app, claims cybersecurity firm

The data of about seven million Indian users is available on a public domain after it had been breached, according to Israeli cybersecurity firm vpnMentor.

The firm discovered a data breach where the data of millions of users was exposed while they were being on-boarded on the BHIM app by the common service centres (CSC) of e-Governance Services, The Times of India (TOI) reported.

The breach was discovered by members of vpnMentor’s research team, Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, the report said. Rotem said that they had discovered the breach on April 23 and had informed India’s cybersecurity agency, the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In).