New Delhi, Oct. 21 -- State Bank of India (SBI), India's largest lender, on Wednesday, October 21, clarified that it experienced a data breach with 3,897 customer records found exposed on the dark web.

According to the bank, it has received communications from its Threat Intelligence Service Provider, the Defence Cyber Agency and CERT-In regarding an alert concerning suspected exposure of customer data earlier in the week.

During preliminary analysis of approximately 375,000 records available on the dark web, 3,897 customer records containing Personally Identifiable Information (PII) were identified, the bank said in an exchange filing.

The exposed information reportedly included customers' registered mobile numbers, dates of birth, na...