Own up if your data is hacked, ShinyHunters tells Indian firms

By Nishant Arora New Delhi, Jan 28 : The hacker behind some of the biggest breaches in India in the recent times, including grocery delivery platform Bigbasket and photo-editing app Pixlr, has come out of the woods and for ShinyHunters, the companies in India need to take full responsibility if their data is hacked for the users to maintain their trust in them.
In a chat with independent cyber security researcher Rajshekhar Rajaharia, a copy of which has been shared with IANS, ShinyHunters said taking responsibility must be the first thing Indian firms should do when a data breach takes place.
“They have no choice but to take responsibility (about data breaches) when their database is hacked. No one cares about data breaches unless the data is yours,” said the hacker who goes by the name of ShinyHunters.
ShinyHunters has been involved in several data breaches recently, including allegedly leaking sensitive data of nearly 3.25 lakh users of Delhi-NCR based global cryptocurrency exchange and wallet, BuyUcoin, on the Dark Web.
The hacker has also leaked 19 lakh user records stolen from free online photo editing application Pixlr.
ShinyHunters blasted the companies that still use poor encryption methods to safeguard the data of their users.