Is JioMoney exposing user data?

A new revelation made by an independent researcher states that JioMoney users' private data has been getting exposed. According to the researcher, the payment platform carries a bug that reportedly exposes users’ private data like Aadhaar numbers along with other crucial personal details.

JioMoney is Jio’s e-wallet app, which is similar to Paytm.

The vulnerability was discovered by C.S Akshay, an independent security researcher, who after unable to get a grievance solved by the customer care starting digging deep into JioMoney code. During his testing, he found out the loopholes that is responsible for revealing users private data like date of birth, JioMoney MPIN, documents used and number along with when the user verify the SIM card and more.

“Absolutely irritated, I messed with Jio Money with [which] the issue resided and boom,” Akshay said, “a vulnerability was discovered!” he tweeted. However, the tweet was later deleted after he got a call from Jio.

Jio was however quick to defend stating that it is just an attempt to malign their services.

“We have come across an unverified and unsubstantiated claim of personal data of JioMoney users being exposed. We confirm that there is no such issue in JioMoney. Prima facie, the claims appear to be mischievous attempts to malign our services. We assure our users that their data is safe and maintained with the highest security,” the company said in a statement.