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PNB customers’ data exposed for seven months due to server vulnerability: Report

Critical financial and personal information of 180 million Punjab National Bank customers was at risk for around seven months due to a vulnerability in the lender's servers, said cybersecurity firm CyberX9. PNB stated “customer data/applications are not affected due to this” and “server has been shut down as a precautionary measure.” “Punjab National Bank kept severely compromising the security of funds, personal and financial information of over 180 million its customers for about the last 7 months. CyberX9 research team discovered a very critical security issue in PNB which was leading to admin access to internal servers hence exposing a massive number of banks' systems nationwide open for cyber-attacks for the last about seven months, Pathak said. According to CyberX9, the vulnerability was mitigated on November 19, and it reported the incident to Indian cyber security watchdog Cert-In and National Critical Information Infrastructure Protection Centre.

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