2026 AU Small Finance Bank — forum dump claim; 1.2 TB / 1B records (unverified)
Data compromised
Actor marketing (unverified): 1.2 TB / 1B+ records including ~3.85M KYC identities (PAN, Aadhaar, DOB, mobile, email, address), ~2.28M live accounts, ~1.92M account numbers, ~938M core-banking records, credit-bureau dossiers, loan-book files, scanned agreements and signatures. Bank: possible leak of some vehicle-loan customers from the SaaS platform (~28.5 lakh onboarded through it; leak census unpublished). recordsAffected 0.
Technical writeup
Root cause
Unverified underground-forum sale listing. Actor claims a core-system breach and a 1.2 TB dump for $8,500. The bank has separately confirmed a potential leak on a third-party Salesforce SaaS used to onboard vehicle-loan customers, and says its own systems are unaffected. Salesforce says it has not identified a platform vulnerability. How any access was obtained is unpublished.
References
- https://www.bseindia.com/xml-data/corpfiling/AttachLive/7ab4c849-67d1-4cc7-b74d-dc5f8a34281a.pdf
- https://www.business-standard.com/companies/news/au-small-finance-bank-probes-potential-data-leak-salesforce-platform-126103000722_1.html
- https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/banking/finance/banking/au-small-finance-bank-data-leak-salesforce-says-no-vulnerability-at-its-end/articleshow/135395127.cms
- https://www.medianama.com/2026/10/223-au-small-finance-bank-data-leak-dark-web/