{"id":1024815,"date":"2026-07-30T09:12:37","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T03:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1024815"},"modified":"2026-07-30T09:56:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T04:26:32","slug":"denied-admission-student-hacks-iit-kanpur-website-says-all-i-need-is-just-a-fair-chance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/30\/denied-admission-student-hacks-iit-kanpur-website-says-all-i-need-is-just-a-fair-chance\/","title":{"rendered":"Denied admission, student hacks IIT-Kanpur website, says \u2018All I need is just a fair chance\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A student who allegedly hacked the websites of IIT-Kanpur and IIT Madras after being denied admission to IIT-Kanpur\u2019s newly launched Bachelor of Cyber Security programme may get another opportunity to join the institute, with the administration considering evaluating his technical skills instead of pursuing legal action. <\/p>\n<p>The student reportedly left a message on the IIT-Kanpur website stating, \u201cSite is hacked. All I need is just a fair chance.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A student who allegedly hacked the websites of IIT-Kanpur and IIT Madras after being denied admission to IIT-Kanpur\u2019s newly launched Bachelor of Cyber Security programme may get another opportunity to join the institute, with the administration considering evaluating his technical skills instead of pursuing legal action. The student reportedly left a message on the IIT-Kanpur website stating, \u201cSite is hacked. All I need is just a fair chance.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1024815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1024815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1024847,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024815\/revisions\/1024847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1024815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1024815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1024815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}