#Ganna.com one of the biggest music streaming website in India. It has millions of registered users and the service has been used nation wide. Recently there has been a hack noted on ganna.com.
Few days back there has been a post in the social media that ganna.com has been hacked and about 10 millions of users details has been exposed along with the user name, password and other personal information.
The users visiting the official website of #ganna.com has been given a message that the site was officially down. The fact behind the server down was the SQL injection attack.
A Pakistan hacker claims the responsibility for the hack and posted that the hack was due to the SQL injection attack and it exposed the millions of database entries for the hacker.
The hacker contacted the #ganna.com company and they refused to give any response and due to this negligence the hacker made the whole details for public viewing in Facebook and after that the company posted to take the details down and apologies for the negligence.
The hacker then take the details down and it has been posted that there has been no financial data loss or any sensitive data leakage as of now.
The interesting fact is that how a big music streaming website vulnerable to the common and very famous vulnerability known as SQL Injection.
It also signifies the fact that nothing is secure in today's world and special care to be taken while performing a small task in Internet.
Users who have an account on ganna.com is requested to change their password immediately and it is also recommended that they should change the password in all the sites wherever it has been used.
P.S : The post is to create awareness and not to create any negative impact.
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