Gaana.com hacked, details of over 10 million users exposed
May 28, 2015 21:25
A hacker claiming to be from Pakistan hacked the website of music streaming services Gaana.com and posted details of its over 10 million users on his Facebook page.
Later, Satyan Gajwani, the CEO of Times Internet, which runs Gaana.com, offered a business deal to the hacker for fixing loopholes in the IT system of company.
The hacker, whose name was given as Mak Man and mentioned that he lives in Lahore, Pakistan, said: "I here by confirm that no financial information was accessed during the hack of Gaana.com.... Database was so huge that I didn't even bother looking ... and no information was dumped and stored locally ... not even a single row."
He said that the hack was "just a POC (proof of concept) to highlight the issue which was grabbing the details directly from their DBMS (Database management systems) and I repeat again information was not stored locally."
In his reply on the hacker's Facebook page, Gajwani said: "First of all, I'd like to apologize personally if you had shared these reports and we didn't respond earlier. Totally unacceptable by us, and I'm looking into it."
A Times Internet spokesperson confirmed Gajwani's comment. However, there was no reply to email queries in this regard.
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