The government on Friday said that "A total of 29 lakh debit cards were subjected to malware attack last year through ATMs that were connected with the switch of Hitachi."

According to the reports by commercial banks 2.9 million cards were used at ATMs that were connected to switch of Hitachi, which was subjected to malware attack, Minister of State for Finance Santosh Kumar Gangwar said in a written reply to the Lok Sabha.

He said that "the successful attempts of misuse of compromised cards as reported to the RBI by banks was only 3,291."

Kunal Gangwar, further added by saying that "RBI has informed that Hitachi Payment Services (HPS) appointed SISA Infosec for PCI forensic investigation. The final report suggested that the ATM infrastructure of HPS was breached and the data between May 21 and July 11, 2016, were compromised, but not the POS (point of sale) infrastructure." 

The National Payment Corporation of India had informed that no independent investigation was carried out by them, said Gangwal.

The RBI has issued a comprehensive circular on Cyber Security Framework in Banks on June 2, 2016, covering best practices pertaining to various aspects of cyber security.

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