Cyber leak: More than 1 lakh national IDs including PAN , Passport and Aadhar data for sale on dark net, reported by Cyble

Cyble: More than 1 lakh national IDs including PAN, Passport and Aadhar for sale on the dark net
According to a cyber intelligence firm, Cyble more than 1 lakh scanned copies of national IDs like PAN card, Aadhar card and Passport have been put up for sale. This data is leaked not leaked from the government systems. It has been leaked from third party systems where people have to comply with Know Your Customers (KYC) norms.

Today Cyble said, “We came across a non-reputed actor who is currently selling over 1 lakh Indian National IDs on the darknet. With such a low reputation, ideally, we would have skipped this; however, the samples shared by the actor intrigued our interest — and also the volume. The actor is alleged to have access to over 1 lakh IDs from different places in India.”

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Online data leak results in identity theft, scams and corporate espionage. This will result in numerous fraudulent activities. Cyble researchers got around 1,000 IDs from the seller and confirmed that all those IDs belonged to Indians.

“Preliminary analysis suggests that the data originated from a third party, and no indication or artefact is indicating that it came from a government system. At this point, Cyble researchers are still investigating this further — we are hoping to share an update soon,” Cyble said.

“Cyble researchers have also learned about a surge in KYC and banking scams — leaks such as this are often used by scammers to target individuals, especially elderlies,” Cyble added.

The intelligence firm has suggested people to avoid sharing personal and financial information over phones, emails and SMS. It also recommended that people should regularly monitor their financial transactions and report any kind of suspicion to the bank. In previous reports, Cyble has reported incidents where the personal data of 7.65 crore Indians have been put up for sale on the dark web.