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Dunzo suffers data breach; users' phone numbers, email IDs exposed

Google-backed delivery services startup says clients' payment information was not compromised.

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Sai Ishwar Mumbai
Dunzo, the Google-backed delivery services startup, said on Saturday it had identified a security breach in a database that exposed phone numbers and email addresses of its users.
 
A server belonging to a third party partner of the company was compromised, said Mukund Jha, chief technology officer at the Bengaluru-based startup, in a blog post. "No payment information like credit card numbers was compromised as we do not store this data on our servers," said Jha.
 
The company said it has taken "swift action" to plug the security gap and added additional layers of security protocols to ensure that user

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