EarlySalary, a Pune based digital-lending startup have faced a cyber attack that has compromised nearly 20,000 of all its applicants data, the company said in its statement.
The company has received a random demand from the hackers, the startup even told that it ha addressed the issue and has subsequently plugged the vulnerability before reporting the incident to the security agencies.
As per the note on the website of the company, it said that names, mobile numbers and few more personal details of the prospective customers of the EarlySalary were leaked.
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The founder of EarlySalary, Akshay Mehrotra said that, “This happened in one of our older landing pages for prospective customers who applied for a loan to us, they would fill up a form with some personal details, employment status and mobile number for us to call them back,”
“Our borrower data around bank accounts, bureau scores and others are safe and all our other systems stand secured.” he added.
The affected data was meant for the call centre of the company for calling back the customer. The company even claimed of having dome the vulnerability test on the system for ensuring that all the data is safe.
EarlySalary is a digital lending platform that gives short duration instant credit to the retail customers which they can usually pay back in the next few days after the next month’s salary arrives.
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