New Delhi: A cybercriminal has claimed to have compromised the community of Route Mobile, one of many main Cloud communication platform service suppliers primarily based in Mumbai, allegedly accessing inner information of Tata Communications and promoting them on Telegram for $5,000. Nevertheless, each Route Cell and Tata Communications denied the claims on Tuesday.
In response to impartial safety researcher Rajshekhar Rajaharia, the vendor is claiming to have 16GB compressed information, together with over 10 million rows of information.
“For promoting the info, the hacker has created a Telegram group. On the Darkish Internet discussion board, he claims to have Tata Communications’ information. However on Telegram, he claimed that the supply was Route Cell,” Rajaharia informed IANS on Tuesday.
“The hacker claims that Route Cell is the non-public technical workforce of Tata Communications, and this workforce has full entry to the inner community,” stated the cyber safety researcher, whereas sharing the screenshots of information dump.
In a reply to IANS, Route Cell stated that unverified posts and claims are being circulated about an alleged information breach on the firm.
“Our cyber safety workforce is conscious of those alleged claims and are at present investigating the identical. As of as we speak, we are able to verify that Route Cell’s programs are safe and there’s no proof to counsel that this has any influence on Route Cell clients’ private information,” the corporate stated.
“As we take all information safety claims significantly, we’ve got engaged a third-party cyber safety marketing consultant to independently confirm and audit our findings,” Route Cell added.
In the meantime, Tata Communications stated that safety of its clients is of paramount significance.
“Our international info safety workforce has investigated the matter. We consider there is no such thing as a consequence, neither for Tata Communications nor for any of our clients. We’ve already issued authorized notices to the involved events. We reiterate our dedication to make sure the security of our clients’ information,” the corporate stated in a press release.
The hacker claims to have information involving cellular numbers, HR log, buyer paperwork, brief message peer-to-peer (SMPP) log, SMS logs and worker particulars, and so on.
In response to Rajaharia, the hacker first claimed $18,000 for the info dump, however he’s at present asking for $5,000.
There have been a string of hacking incidents involving Indian companies within the latest previous, together with Bigbasket, BuyUcoin, JusPay, Upstox and others.
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