A virus or malware infection at Hitachi Payments Services led to over 32 lakh debit cards in India being compromised. 
●    Hitachi is one of the companies that operate ATMs in India. 
●    The compromised debit cards were used in ATMs that are suspected to have exposed details of the cards to the malware.
●    A senior official at the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), an umbrella organisation for all retail payment systems, said the breach occurred a month ago. 
●    However, the loss is minute and banks will have to individually deal with it.
●    Of the debit cards affected, 2.6 million are on Visa and MasterCard platforms, while 600,000 are on the RuPay platform. 
●    The worst-hit of the card-issuing banks are State Bank of India, HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank, Yes Bank and Axis Bank.


 

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