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ICICI Bank , one of India ’s top private banks , exposed the sore information of K of Modern credit rating bill to client who were not their intended recipients .
The Mumbai - based bank confirm to TechCrunch Thursday that its digital channels “ erroneously mapped ” about 17,000 credit bill issued in the retiring few days to “ untimely ” users . The issue hail to visible light after some customers raised headache on societal media about the bank ’s iMobile Pay app debunk strange customers ’ credit card details , including their full number and identity card verification economic value ( CVV ) .
“ Our customers are our utmost precedence , and we are wholeheartedly consecrate to safe guard their involvement , ” Kausik Datta , corporate communication head at ICICI Bank , said in a argument emailed to TechCrunch . “ We regret the troublesomeness caused . No representative of abuse of a add-in from this hardening has been report to us . However , we promise that the Bank will fittingly even out a client in character of any financial loss . ”
The spokesperson tot up that the act of impacted credit board constituted about 0.1 % of the bank ’s acknowledgment add-in portfolio .
Asreportedby the finance - related forum Technofino , sensitive data such as the full bill number , termination escort and CVV of unknown customer ’ credit cards short come along for some user on the iMobile Pay app .
“ I have access code to someone else ’s Amazon Pay CC due to a surety glitch on the iMobile app . Although OTP restricts domestic minutes , but I can do international transactions using the detail from the iMobile app , ” one of the drug user wrote on the forum .
The bank spokesperson told TechCrunch it halt the affected cards and is issuing new card to customer .
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ICICI Bank , which has more than 6,000 branches in India , is in17 countriesworldwide . The iMobile Pay app , launched in 2008 , hasover 28 million users .
