India’s HDB Financial Services flags third-party data breach

HDB
Financial
Services,
the
non-bank
lending
unit
of
India’s
top
private
lender
HDFC
Bank,
has
disclosed
a
data
breach
at
one
of
its
service
providers
which
processes
customer
information.

“We
have
taken
immediate
steps
to
secure
the
service
provider’s
system
to
prevent
any
further
unauthorised
access,”
HDB
said
in
an
emailed
statement.

The
company
did
not
immediately
respond
to
a

Reuters
request
for
comment
on
the
nature
of
the
data
breach
and
how
many
customers
were
affected.

HDB
is
working
with
a
regulator
and
an
office
of
the
government
to
investigate
the
incident,
it
said.

HDFC
Bank
said
it
was
not
affected
by
the
incident.

“We
wish
to
state
that
there
is
no
data
leak
at
HDFC
Bank
and
our
systems
have
not
been
breached
or
accessed
in
any
unauthorised
manner,”
the
bank
said
in
an
emailed
statement.

“We
remain
confident
of
our
systems.”

Details
of
the
breach
were
first
reported
by
online
media
platform
Yourstory. 

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