On May 2018, the Indian investigative news agency Cobrapost released a video of an undercover reporter meeting with Paytm’s vice president, Ajay Shekhar Sharma who is brother of Vijay Shekhar Sharma.[59][60] During the meeting, he reportedly said the company provided the Indian government with the personal data of paytm users in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir by violating user's privacy and policies.[61][62] This went viral through internet, throughout the day.