Aug 1 (AZINS) Truecaller, the popular mobile directory app, has been affected with a bug. The bug on the app has affected UPI-based digital payments feature on the platform. According to reports, the bug was automatically enrolling Truecaller users to unified payments interface (UPI) payment feature on the app. Truecaller has over 100 million active users in India.

It has discontinued the version which was hit by the bug but “for the users already affected, the new version with the fix will be available shortly”. It also confirmed that users affected can manually deregister in the app.

Truecaller had apologized for the bug. “We have discovered a bug in the latest update of Truecaller that affected the payments feature,” the company said on Twitter. [The bug] “automatically triggered a registration post updating to the version. This was a bug and we have discontinued this version of the app so no other users will be affected.”

The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), which authorizes platforms to use UPI system for money transfer, said the bug would not have had any impact on bank account of customers. However, the incident has sparked concerns about hacking among digital payment users in the country.

“This is enrolling mistake by the app without customer consent. With this customer cant do any UPI transaction,” Dilip Asbe, NPCI Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, said. “For on boarding to UPI the customer has to still enter 2FA (issuer OTP and debit card), and set UPI pin. The workflow mistake is limited to enrolling which will not have any impact on any customer account whatsoever.”

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