It was clarified later that the "hacker" was a security professional who put up all that data on the Dark Web to draw Zomato's attention to loopholes in its sys

It was clarified later that the "hacker" was a security professional who put up all that data on the Dark Web to draw Zomato's attention to loopholes in its systems. http://blog.zomato.com/post/160986258541/security-update-what-really-happened-and-what(http://blog.zomato.com/post/160986258541/security-update-what-really-happened-and-what) http://blog.zomato.com/post/160986258541/security-update-wha... Edit - Turns out the OP's article mentions the same thing. Might as well confess a personal bias - every time I see a Daily Mail article, I can't help but think about how they served as a Nazi mouthpiece for years before the war, so all their stuff's got to be inaccurate/biased.