analysts said such breach of sgs servers may have financial impact for their customers due to the data being competitive for their business bengaluru servers of sgs group have been breached exposing confidential data of several of its customers including firms such as shell india mg motors and daimler india commercial vehiclesthe business competitive data was available for sale on the darkweb or private internet forums for as much as 10000 it includes quality test reports of some of the prominent oil and gas companies and truck makers et has reviewed samples from the data setthe genevabased testing and certification major confirmed the breach and said it has plugged the leaks we have already taken necessary measures data leaks have totally stopped and a few anomalies were corrected all the clients have been informed about this and the reports that are available are not harmful information said a global sgs spokesperson he said the company learnt about the breach in august and has begun a probe advt apart from oil and gas and manufacturing companies in india servers of sgss korea and french division have been attacked and thousands of test reports and user data have been leaked impacting the local clients of the company in fact the data set from the server of sgs korean division contains more than 6000 test reportscomparing the incident with recent cyber security lapse wherein millions of phone numbers linked to facebook were found online analysts said such breach of sgs servers may have financial impact for their customers due to the data being competitive for their business read alsoniti aayog meity spar over rs 7000 crore ai missionelectric car goal in india seen creating cybersecurity risks considering the information and reports made available from the companys servers on the darkweb are authentic it could have significant impact since pdfs and excel sheets are accessed by hackers said saket modi ceo at lucideus a cyber security platforms company for enterprises this shows a very high probability that the actual storage devices access has been compromised and that could be scary for a simple reason that there might be instances the hackers have access to clients data said modiet reached out to some of the indian clients of sgs such as daimler mg motors and shell india to understand if there were cases of any damage due to this data leak by ayan pramanik et bureau published on sep 12 2019 at 0610 pm ist telegram facebook copy link be the first one to comment comment now comments comment now read comment 1 all comments post post find this comment offensive choose your reason below and click on the submit button this will alert our moderators to take actions reasons for reporting foul language defamatory inciting hatred against a certain community out of context spam others report join the community of 2m industry professionals subscribe to our newsletter to get latest insights analysis download etauto app get realtime updates save your favourite