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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Business
Hemant Gairola 

India’s Bank of Baroda tampered with accounts to flog app

At the Bank of Baroda, the safety of tens of thousands of bank accounts was at risk since they were linked with strangers’ mobile numbers [File: Anushree Fadnavis/Reuters]

Dehradun, India – A Bank of Baroda officer from Bhopal zone recalls the day he and his colleagues got the order from their regional office to report to work at 7am on March 24 last year.

They were given a task: sign up customers for the bank’s new app, “bob World”, which was launched six months before. The officer’s branch was given a target of onboarding at least 150 existing bank customers.

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