The hacker or hacking group that set up a website over the last fortnight to showcase user data that was stolen from MobiKwik's servers has pulled all the data from the website, stating that all the data has been deleted from their servers. On Tuesday, MediaNama visited the website through The Onion Router, and queried the database for our personal information using their names, email addresses or phone numbers. We found that the data on the website, including card and bank account information, was accurate. However, by late Tuesday night the hacker pulled the database from the website stating that all users were now safe. [caption id="attachment_132971" align="alignnone" width="1363"] The site was replaced with a message stating that MobiKwik's data was deleted.[/caption] The website allowed users to check if their data, stored by MobiKwik, was leaked as part of the data dump. The website, which is also available on the open web, allowed users to query the database and also displayed KYC information of individuals at random, like selfies they took. This included unredacted photographs of Aadhaar cards, PAN cards and other official documents which can be used to view the details of other users. Hacker says database deleted voluntarily In a post on RaidForum, the hacker, who goes by the alias ninja_storm, said that they have deleted all the data and two backups of the data from all their servers, including small copies of the data which a part of the TOR site. "We have very long and deep…
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