If you are also an EPFO account holder then this news is important for you. Ukrainian cyber security researcher Bob Diachenko has claimed in the report that the records of 28,04,72,941 account holders in one IP address were made public while the records of 83,90,524 account holders were also recorded in another IP-address.
At the same time, another report claimed that the data of 28 crore PF account holders has been leaked online. These include Aadhaar to bank account details.
Data leak on two IP addresses
Cyber Security Research of Ukraine and Bob Diachenko have made this big claim which is very shocking to the PF account holders. The report released said that on August 2, Diachenko discovered that the data of PF account holders had been leaked in early August under two different IP addresses.
Where the records of 28,04,72,941 account holders were made public in one IP address while the records of 83,90,524 account holders were also recorded in another IP address.
This data leaked
The Universal Account Number ie UAN in the data leaked from two different IP addresses.
# Account holder name, aadhar details, bank account number. Even the details of the nominee have been leaked.
# According to the report, the researcher said that both the IP addresses are azure hosted and India-based.
Researcher gave information
Ukraine researcher Diachenko claimed that as soon as the data of the PF account of such a large number of Indians were confirmed, the researcher tagged the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team in a tweet and informedthem about the data leak. The team replied to his tweet and asked him to report in an email.
Deleted data from ip address
The details were removed from both the IP addresses within 12 hours of Diachenko's tweet. The Ukrainian researcher said that the addresses of both IP addresses have now been removed and no data exists in these.
