JEE Advanced data breach claims ‘misleading’, says IIT Roorkee, admits ‘minor’ glitch

The Centre and IIT Roorkee, which organised this year’s JEE (Advanced), on Friday acknowledged only a “minimal, temporary misconfiguration” in a cloud-storage component and dismissed as “misleading” the claims of a data breach and privacy violation of aspirants.

IIT Roorkee took note of ethical hacker Rylen Anil’s social media claim that he could access the database, but added that no sensitive information was compromised or mass-extracted.