India, July 27 -- State-owned Bank of Baroda is investigating claims of a major cybersecurity breach after reports claimed that around 1TB of sensitive customer and internal banking data had allegedly been leaked on the dark web.

The alleged leaked archive is said to contain personal and corporate banking records, including Aadhaar numbers, customer names, savings and current account details, loan documents, NetBanking user information, NRI and corporate banking records, customer support files, and branch- and ATM-related data. Sample files purportedly linked to the breach have also surfaced online.

Cybersecurity researcher and CashlessConsumer founder Srikanth Lakshmanan said the alleged breach first came to light on Saturday after it ...