NPCI denies data breach of BHIM mobile app

TIL Desk/Business/New Delhi/ The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) on Tuesday said that there has been no data compromise pertaining to the BHIM App and has requested everyone not to fall prey to such incorrect information.

In a statement, the NPCI said that it has conducted an independent verification of the recent news, including through a leading Digital Risk Monitoring firm who has reconfirmed that the claims against the BHIM App are untrue.

“There is no data leak with respect to the BHIM app,” it said. The statement comes a day after a report said that security researchers have discovered that about 7.26 million records linked to users of mobile payments app BHIM were left exposed to the public by a website.

The exposed data included sensitive information such as names, dates of birth, age, gender, home address, caste status and Aadhaar card details, among others, said the report from VPN review website vpnMentor.