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Personal details, including names, locations, emails, phone numbers and addresses of around 170,000 Vianet customers have been breached and leaked onto the internet.
The breach was first announced by anonymous hackers via Twitter on Tuesday, alleging that the user details of around 170,000 customers of Vianet, one of Nepal’s leading Internet Service Providers, had been compromised.
Officials at Vianet confirmed the breach.
“There has been a breach in user data,” Binay Bohra, managing director of Vianet, told the Post. “We don’t know the exact number of customers whose data has been breached, but it could be between 100,000 and 170,000.”
Issuing an official statement on Wednesday evening, the Internet Service Provider admitted that an unauthorised party had accessed personal data of users’, particularly name, location, email address and phone number.
"We have identified and fixed the source of the breach," reads the statement. "Our technical team has taken appropriate and immediate actions to reinforce existing security measures and are monitoring our system for any further possible vulnerabilities."
The incident is being thoroughly investigated by the internal team, Cybersecurity experts and the Cyber Crime Bureau of Nepal Police, reads the statement signed by Bohra. The internet service provider apologized to its customers and requested them to follow some safety measures while communicating with Vianet.
Published on Kathmandu Post
April 8, 2020
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