HDB Financial Services data breach: 1.7M accounts exposed
Severity: medium · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2023-03-11
In March 2023, the Indian non-bank lending unit HDB Financial Services suffered a data breach that disclosed over 70M customer records. Containing 1.6M unique email addresses, the breach also disclosed names, dates of birth, phone numbers, genders, post codes and loan information belonging to the customers. Exposed data: dates of birth, email addresses, genders, geographic locations, loan information, names, phone numbers. The breach dates from Feb 22, 2023; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Mar 11, 2023.
What to do
- If you had a HDB Financial Services account, change its password and the password of any other account that reused it.
- Turn on multi-factor authentication wherever it is offered.
- Check whether your addresses are in this breach at https://haveibeenpwned.com.
- Expect targeted phishing that quotes the leaked details; verify any unexpected contact out of band.
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