EPFO data exposed online, claims security researcher
Pension scheme holders' data including details about bank, nominee hacked and EPFO yet to verify it, says Ukraine-based cyber threat intelligence director at SecurityDiscovery.com
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New Delhi: A Ukraine-based cybersecurity researcher and journalist has claimed that about 288 million personal records, containing the full name, bank account number and nominee information of the Employees' Pension Scheme (EPS) holders in the Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO), were exposed online before being taken off the Internet.
The security researcher's claim about the data exposed online was yet to be verified by the EPFO, national cyber agency CERT-In or the IT Ministry.
Bob Diachenko, cyber threat intelligence director and journalist at SecurityDiscovery.com, claimed that their systems identified two separate IPs with Universal Account Number (UAN) data.
