Personal Data of 26 Lakh Airtel Users From J&K Leaked, Being Sold in Bitcoin on The Web

In another huge leak, private data of 26 lakh Airtel consumers – almost all belonging to Jammu and Kashmir – have already been hacked and are currently sold for $3500 at Bitcoin around the net, independent cyber safety researcher Rajshekhar Rajaharia told IANS on Tuesday. The information of Airtel clients comprise phone numbers, addresses, Aadhaar amounts along with other information, as stated by the screenshots plus a movie shared with Rajaharia.

‘The user had access to this information and wished to offer them, but couldn’t succeed. Hence he dropped the information on the world wide web,’ Rajaharia maintained, including the information could have been leaked out of any third party source rather than Airtel.

Based on Rajaharia, the hacker that goes by the title of Red Rabbit Team, uploaded the particulars of Airtel consumers in January and directed to’extort cash’ in your telecom giant. Airtel stated in an announcement that it’takes great pride in creating a variety of steps to protect the privacy of its clients’. Additionally See Internet Suspended For two Days in Delhi Borders Amid Farmers’ Protest

‘In this particular scenario, we affirm that there’s no information breach at our conclusion. In reality, the promises made by this group show glaring inaccuracies and also a massive proportion of these information files do not even belong to Airtel. We’ve apprised the applicable government about the topic,’ the firm said.

Rajaharia explained the hacker had deleted the information dump in the prior link but the exact very same information are at present accessible a different hyperlink.

‘The user had dumped the information over the public forum rather than on the Dark Internet,’ said the researcher, who’d lately exposed many hackers that jeopardized the information of Indian companies like BuyUCoin and JusPay,” amongst others.

Previously, data of more than two crore Bigbasket consumers were murdered in November this past year and were available over the Dark Internet for more than 40,000 – that is reported to be the handiwork of some other programmer who goes by the title of ShinyHunters.