HDB Financial Services, the non-bank lending unit of India's top private lender HDFC Bank, said on Tuesday there was a data breach at one of its service providers which processes customer information.
"We have taken immediate steps to secure the service provider's system to prevent any further unauthorised access," HDB said in an emailed statement.
Details of the breach were first reported by the online media platform Yourstory.
Yourstory reported that about 30GB of customer data was leaked in the breach and is estimated to contain around 73 million entries and is from the period between May 2022 and February 2023. The dataset reportedly contains consumer information from two categories — consumer durable loans and two-wheeler loans.
“The data that has been released mainly pertains to customers applying for credit, their credit scores being checked, and the status of their loans (whether it has been approved or not),” the report said.
HDB is working with a regulator and an office of the government to investigate the incident, it said.
HDFC Bank said it was not affected by the incident.
"We wish to state that there is no data leak at HDFC Bank and our systems have not been breached or accessed in any unauthorised manner. We remain confident of our systems," the bank said in an emailed statement.
(With Reuters Inputs)
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