India, Oct. 21 -- State Bank of India (SBI) has flagged the exposure of 3,897 customer records containing personal information on the dark web, including mobile numbers, dates of birth, email addresses, and residential addresses.

The public sector lender, in an exchange filing, said its preliminary analysis of around 3.75 Lakh records available on the dark web identified 3,897 customer records containing personally identifiable information.

The data also included branch details, customer information file identifiers, lead IDs, and metadata associated with loan and lead records, according to the bank.

SBI said it received alerts about the suspected exposure on October 16 from its threat intelligence service provider, the Defence Cyber A...