Paytm Mall database hacked; company denies security lapse

Its barely a month since Garmin, a fitness tracker and GPS service provider fell victim to ransomware. Customers around the world faced service outage for several days and finally it was restored.

Now, Paytm’s e-commerce arm Paytm Mall has suffered a cyberattack. A US-based internet security firm, Cyble citing KelvinSec, an ex-member of the notorious hacker group ‘John Wick’, has claimed that the latter has compromised the Indian company’s database.

John Wick aka ‘South Korea’ or ‘HCKINDIA’ are known to approach companies as ethical white hat hackers to help them find bugs and security loopholes and after gaining their trust, steal or some times lock the data access until a ransom is paid.