Update on March 19: In a statement, PayU India's security and IT head M.Navaneethan said that the use of information on saved cards is encrypted and "all users have to mandatorily go through CVV and OTP authentication in order to complete every transaction". In response to the fact that one user's card can be blocked by other users by entering a wrong CVV, PayU said that card blocking is the executed by the bank, and can be unblocked at request. PayU said it has been certified level 1 by PCI-DSS certification for the last 7 years. (Find PayU's full statement at the bottom.) Earlier on March 18: Payments company PayU India is leaving users' credit and debit card information exposed on its dashboard, reported Srikanth Lakshmanan on Twitter. Lakshmanan claims that he was able to get TRAI chairman RS Sharma's masked credit card number by simply entering his email address. Although the credit card number is masked, the CVV field is left open, and card itself can be blocked upon entering the wrong CVV number multiple times. Lakshmanan told the Quint that other platforms and entities which have the last four digits of cards can get access to user emails, and other personal data be correlated if somebody mines the data. Dear @rssharma3 This is NOT about #Aadhaar, but your data is being leaked by @PayUmoney I just had to enter your email ID to get your stored card. I don't know how you see this. #Privacy #DataProtection 1. Please Delete…
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