New Delhi, Oct. 21 -- State Bank of India (SBI) on Tuesday said it has identified 3,897 customer records containing personally identifiable information during a preliminary analysis of data suspected to have been exposed on the dark web, with the bank initiating a detailed investigation into the incident.

In an exchange filing on Tuesday, the bank said it received communications on October 16 from its Threat Intelligence Service Provider, the Defence Cyber Agency and CERT-In regarding an alert about the suspected exposure of customer data on the dark web.

The preliminary analysis covered approximately 3,75,000 records available on the dark web, of which 3,897 customer records containing personally identifiable information (PII) were ide...