SBI Fixes Glitch That May Have Exposed Customer Data

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
information of millions of customers."SBI would like to assure all its customers that their data is safe and secure and SBI is fully
committed to ensuring this," the bank said in a statement late on Friday.A report by the U.S.-based TechCrunch news website on Wednesday had
said SBI had secured an unprotected server that could have allowed anyone to access information on millions of its customers, including bank
balances and recent transactions.The server, hosted in a Mumbai-based datacenter, stored data from SBI Quick, a text message and call-based
system used to request basic information about their bank accounts by SBI customers, the report had said.A process to mask such account
details "uses the services of telecom providers and aggregators," SBI said."Investigation has revealed that there was a misconfiguration or
lacuna in their process that arose on January 27 and was subsequently rectified," it added.SBI's investigation also showed that its servers