Recently, there were rumours that some Airtel subscribers’ data had been leaked. The telecom giant has refuted these rumors, saying it did not experience any data breach on its services.
For its part, Airtel dismissed the reports in a statement to Moneycontrol, stating that they were an attempt to discredit the firm’s reputation. The firm’s spokesman clarified that the issue had been investigated within the company, and there was no leakage from Airtel platforms.
As per the unconfirmed sources, it had come to the notice that Airtel was allegedly listing their consumer’s details, including phone number, email ID, date of birth, father’s name, and Aaadhar card number of 375 million of its users, in the black market.
However, the CEO of cybersecurity firm CloudSEK, Rahul Sasi, said that the person who made this claim just combined public data leaks and attributed them to Airtel’s base.
Sasi pointed out that several service providers have observed such CDSS breaches in the preceding couple of years, revealing gigantic data breaches in Personally Identifiable Information. He said threat actors are now aggregating publicly available datasets and erroneously linking them to specific telecom firms.
When contacted for a comment on Snowden’s revelation, a spokesperson for Airtel said the company would do all it takes to protect customers’ data privacy. The telecom giant has dismissed the new claims as a bare-faced attempt to harm its reputation and threatened to launch an appropriate legal process against the accused.
