Security breaches feared in up to 3.2 mln Indian debit cards: report

A huge number of banks in India will either supplant or request that client change the security codes of upwards of 3.2 million platinum cards on fears of potential ruptures, the Economic Times daily paper provided details regarding Thursday.

The move comes a day after the nation's No. 1 moneylender State Bank of India (SBI.NS) said that it had blocked cards of specific clients. 

Of the platinum cards influenced, 2.6 million are on Visa and MasterCard stages, while 600,000 are on the home-developed RuPay stage, the paper said refering to anonymous individuals mindful of the matter. 

The most exceedingly awful hit of the card-issuing banks are State Bank of India, HDFC Bank (HDBK.NS), ICICI Bank (ICBK.NS), Yes Bank (YESB.NS) and Axis Bank (AXBK.NS), the paper said. 

Yes Bank said in an announcement on Thursday it had proactively embraced an audit of its ATMs and found no proof of any rupture. 

A RuPay sign is seen on the door of an automated teller machine (ATM) while a user is seen, at a commercial building in Mumbai September 11, 2014.

SBI had on Wednesday said that it had been educated via card organize suppliers around a potential hazard to a few cards, and was supplanting those cards as a careful step. 

Different banks did not quickly react to demands for input. 

There were 697.2 million check cards in India as of end-July, as per information from the national bank. 

(Composing by Devidutta Tripathy; Editing by Euan Rocha)