Paytm Mall says user data 'safe' after report claimed cyber breach affecting 3.4 mn users

 After cyber-security company Firefox Monitor claimed that Paytm Mall suffered a massive data breach two years back that may have exposed data of over 3.4 million users, the digital payments leader said on Wednesday that the data of its users is "completely safe".

In a statement to IANS, a Paytm Mall spokesperson said that the data of "our users is completely safe" and "claims related to data leak in the year 2020 are completely false and unsubstantiated".

"A fake dump uploaded on the platform haveibeenpwned.com appears to wrongly alert of a data breach on Firefox browser. We are getting in touch with Firefox and the platform to resolve the matter," the company spokesperson added.

According to Firefox Monitor, a security tracker by popular web browser Mozilla, "Paytm was breached on August 30, 2020".

"Once the breach was discovered and verified, it was added to our database on July 26, 2022," it said.