BigBasket user data allegedly leaked on dark web, including email IDs, numbers, addresses of over two crore Indians

BigBasket had been hit by a data breach in October last year and the compromised user data has now been put up for sale on the dark web by the threat actor.

Yet another user database has been leaked to the dark web and this time the victim is the popular online grocery delivery platform BigBasket. The massive data leak is said to comprise the data of 20 million BigBasket users, including their email ID, home address, phone number, IP address and more such personal data. The data leak from the company servers was first acknowledged by the service back in November last year. The hacker behind the leak has now published the user data on a cybercrime forum and has made it available for anyone to download. The hacking group reported to be responsible for the data leak is known by the name ShinyHunters. As per threat intelligence SaaS provider Cyble, the cyber group has been active since 2015 and has been leaking such user databases on the dark web for long. The group has leaked a combined total of 73.2 million user records from over 11 different companies to date.