Paytm Mall Says User Data ‘Safe’ After Cyber Breach

Cyber-security company Firefox Monitor claimed that Paytm Mall suffered a massive data breach two years back. It may have exposed data of over 3.4 million users. The digital payments leader said on Wednesday that the data of its users is “completely safe”.

In a statement to IANS, a Paytm Mall spokesperson said that the data of “our users is completely safe”. And “claims related to data leak in the year 2020 are completely false and unsubstantiated”.

According to Firefox Monitor, a security tracker by popular web browser Mozilla, “Paytm was breached on August 30, 2020″.

According to the report, the data compromised included phone numbers, email addresses, dates of birth, genders, geographic locations, income levels, names and purchases of the nearly 3.4 million users.

The breach data was provided by Have I Been Pwned. A website that allows internet users to check whether their personal data has been compromised.

“Though passwords weren’t exposed in this breach. There are still steps you can take to better protect your personal info,” said Firefox Monitor.

Firefox Monitor alerted several affected users. Have I been pwned website, that their data was compromised during the Paytm breach.

Several Paytm users went to Twitter with screenshots reflecting that they may have been compromised.