After report of data breach of 3.4 million users two years ago, Paytm says that user data is safe
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After Paytm had suffered a massive data breach two years back that may have exposed the data of over 3.4 million users, the Indian mobile payment company said on Wednesday that the data of its users is “completely safe”.
In a statement to IANS, a spokesperson of Paytm Mall said that the data of their users are completely safe and claims related to a data leak in the year 2020 are completely false and unsubstantiated.
The company spokesperson further adds, “A fake dump uploaded on the platform haveibeenpwned.com appears to wrongly alert of a data breach on Firefox browser. We are getting in touch with Firefox and the platform to resolve the matter.”
According to a cyber security company, Firefox Monitor, Paytm was breached on August 30, 2020.
“Once the breach was discovered and verified, it was added to our database on July 26, 2022,” it said.
According to the report, the data compromised included phone numbers, email addresses, dates of birth, genders, geographic locations, income levels, names, and purchases of the nearly 3.4 million users.
The breach data was provided by a website called Have I Been Pwned, which allows Internet users to check whether their personal data has been harmed or compromised.
“Though passwords weren’t exposed in this breach, there are still steps you can take to better protect your personal info,” said Firefox Monitor.
