More than 3.2 million debit card details may have be stolen by hackers from ATMs and POS machines on YES Bank's network, as indicated by this Mint report. The ATMs were managed by Hitachi Payment Services and card data was stolen from May 25 to July 10, the report added. Around 90 YES Bank's ATMs and POS machines were targeted by the malware which resulted in card details of State Bank of India (SBI), ICICI Bank and HDFC Bank customers stolen. The report added that NPCI, Visa, MasterCard, the banks involved and Hitachi called for a forensic probe into the matter. The damage to customers NPCI said that the complaints of fraudulent withdrawal are limited to cards of 19 banks and 641 customers. The total amount involved is Rs. 1.3 crore. Out of a card base of about 3.2 million that could have been possibly compromised 0.6 million are RuPay cards. The NPCI received complaints from few banks that their customer’s cards were used fraudulently mainly in China and USA while customers were in India. It added that it suspects compromise was at switch level which is PCI-DSS certified. Hence, subsequently PCI Council (the international body which sets standards on for PCI–DSS) was persuaded to conduct a forensic audit of the switch of one bank which is likely to be the point of compromise. Its full statement here. YES Bank, on its part, issued a statement saying that there was no breach on ATMs handled by the bank itself. “YES BANK has…
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