ICICI Bank iMobile glitch: Online portal raises alert, netizen says sensitive card information visible

Sumanta Mandal, laminitis of TechnoFino, successful a station connected societal media level X (formerly known arsenic Twitter), tagged the slope and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to urgently code the issue.

"Several users person reported being capable to presumption different customers' ICICI Bank recognition cards connected their iMobile Pay app. Since the afloat paper number, expiry date, and CVV are disposable connected iMobile, and 1 tin negociate planetary transaction settings, it's casual for idiosyncratic to misuse different person's recognition paper for planetary transactions," Mandal wrote.

After aggregate users raised alarm, Madal aboriginal posted that the slope seemed to person restricted entree to recognition paper accusation to rectify the issue.

Mint has reached retired to ICICI Bank for remark and this communicative volition beryllium updated erstwhile they respond.

Glitch Seen Concerning Sensitive Credit Card Details

TechnoFino is an online level for credit cards and banking products successful India, arsenic per its authoritative X account.

In an online station connected the platform, Mandal besides wrote that the "best option" to support yourself astatine present, is to artifact and regenerate your card.

"If you can't bash anything, and idiosyncratic has entree to your card, they tin alteration settings connected iMobile without OTP oregon adjacent MPIN. The champion enactment is to artifact the paper and regenerate it; this volition supply immoderate impermanent relief," helium said.

Besides Mandal, tract idiosyncratic @googley besides posted a screenshot of what they claimed were entree to "someone else's Amazon Pay" recognition paper details.

"I person entree to idiosyncratic else’s Amazon Pay CC owed to a information glitch connected the iMobile app," the idiosyncratic wrote, adding: "Although OTP restricts home transactions but I tin bash planetary transactions utilizing the details from the iMobile app. The app adjacent allows maine to alteration planetary transactions successful lawsuit it has been disabled by the existent user."

The conscientious idiosyncratic besides said they had flagged the issue. "I person already flagged this to the ICICI squad they are moving connected this connected precedence arsenic aggregate customers person reported this. I wanted to alert the assemblage folks excessively regarding the same," idiosyncratic Googley added.

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Published: 25 Apr 2024, 11:37 AM IST