Piecing together the MobiKwik hack

The past week has been nothing short of a cluster***k for MobiKwik and its users.

While the fintech company maintains that its servers were never breached in what’s being claimed to be the biggest KYC (Know Your Customer) hack in India− even going so far as to indulge in victim-blaming− all signs point to a track record of obfuscation. Indeed, this isn’t the first time MobiKwik has been subject to glaring security goof-ups. The 2021 hack, however, is significant because of the quantum of personal data that’s available: PAN card and Aadhaar details, bank details, phone numbers, mugshots, and …

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Roshni P. Nair

Roshni is a features writer and former editor of The Morning Context's Chaos team. Her career spans The Ken, Reuters, the Hindustan Times and DNA. She is a recipient of the UNFPA Laadli award and was shortlisted for the RedInk Awards 2016 for her story on Mumbai’s leprosy colonies. Her far-flung ideas would sometimes drive our editor-in-chief Ashish up the wall, but he wouldn’t have had it any other way (even if he didn’t admit it).

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Arti Singh

Arti is a former writer at The Morning Context. She previously worked with publications such as ET Prime, VCCircle, Firstpost and EETimes. Arti has keenly tracked the evolution of financial technology in India and written some of the defining pieces on the ecosystem as it birthed and matured. Even when not writing about it, she loves to dissect the revenue models, margins and regulations that are shaping the sector.

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