State Bank of India Confirms Data Loss After 3,897 Customer Records Surface on Dark Web

Summary

State Bank of India, India's largest state-owned bank, has identified 3,897 customer records containing personal information within a set of about 375,000 records found on the dark web, and it does not yet know where the data came from. In a stock-exchange filing dated October 21, the bank said it "has experienced an incident involving the loss of certain data." TechRadar reported that someone leaked thousands of user records online, including many belonging to SBI customers, and its headline describes the episode as a cyberattack. The source-based summaries do not confirm the cause of the leak.

Timeline

1. The Hacker News

   21 Oct 2026, 07:44 UTCSource ↗

   The Hacker News reports that SBI has identified 3,897 customer records with personal information in about 375,000 records available on the dark web, and that the bank does not yet know the source, citing its October 21 stock-exchange filing.

2. TechRadar

   21 Oct 2026, 14:16 UTCSource ↗

   TechRadar reports that someone leaked thousands of user records online, including many belonging to SBI customers, and frames the incident as a cyberattack in its headline.