New Delhi, Jan. 4 -- Sensitive data of over 100 million credit and debit cardholders have been leaked on the Dark Web, according to a security researcher. The data included full names, phone numbers, and email addresses of the cardholders. It also included the first and last four digits of their cards. It appears to have been associated with a payments platform, Juspay. Juspay processes transactions for Indian and global merchants including Amazon, MakeMyTrip, and Swiggy, among others. On Sunday, the startup acknowledged the compromise of some of its user data.

About the data breach on Dark Web

According to Rajshekhar Rajaharia, the leak included online transactions that took place at least between March 2017 and August 2020. Gadgets 36...