Bengaluru Woman Receives Unwanted Gift From Bumble Match, Internet Spooked

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A woman shared her friend's experience on Reddit, describing how she matched with a man on Bumble and was taken aback by the unexpected gift she received at home.
The convenience of having the world at our fingertips comes with a price. Our growing dependence on digital platforms has opened up new avenues for exploitation and misuse. A disturbing incident in Bengaluru served as a stark reminder of this vulnerability, where a man allegedly exploited a payment app to track a woman's address and sent her an unwanted gift.
A woman shared her friend's experience on Reddit, describing how she matched with a man on Bumble, exchanged numbers and was taken aback by the unexpected gift she received at home. She later realised that the man was allegedly an employee of an Indian online payment app. He used the woman's phone number to access her transactional details. Using the longitude and latitude of her Swiggy delivery transactions, he pinpointed her address on Google and sent her a gift.
'Apparently, he works in PhonePe, and used her phone no to find out her transactional details. From the transactional details, he was able to verify the longitude and latitude for the Swiggy deliveries. He put this lat-lon in Google Maps and got her address. She didn't believe that phone pe would provide such sensitive information openly to its employees, so she checked with an acquaintance who also happens to work there. To her surprise, he acknowledged that this is possible," the post read.
The post garnered significant attention on Reddit, with several calling for the woman to take action. One user wrote, 'Take a screenshot and warn him that you will mail hr and other seniors in the company. He is gonna backaway."
Another added, 'This is extremely frowned down upon in large companies. You could complain to PhonePe with all the evidence and they would probably take serious action against him."
'Creepy indeed, but I wonder how he got the exact flat number from the lat long," wondered a person.
Someone else commented, 'This must blow up !! This needs to be on headlines in media. Its seriously very big security risk and also privacy breach."
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