Bank of Baroda confirms employee email compromise behind reported data breach

Bank of Baroda said an employee email account was compromised, enabling unauthorised access to certain data. A ransomware group claims it published roughly 1 TB of records, including customer KYC, loan, audit and internal files; the bank said core banking systems were not accessed.

— Filed Mon, 27 Jul, 2026, 16:38 IST · Source Financial Express · BrandWagon · Updated

Bank of Baroda confirmed an employee email compromise led to unauthorised access to certain data. A ransomware group claims to have published about 1 TB of customer KYC, loan, audit and internal records; core banking systems were not accessed.