{"id":1024846,"date":"2026-07-30T09:37:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T04:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1024846"},"modified":"2026-07-30T10:21:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T04:51:48","slug":"student-who-hacked-iit-kanpur-website-after-admission-denial-may-get-second-chance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/30\/student-who-hacked-iit-kanpur-website-after-admission-denial-may-get-second-chance\/","title":{"rendered":"Student who hacked IIT Kanpur website after admission denial may get second chance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A student who allegedly hacked the websites of IIT-Kanpur and IIT Madras after being denied admission to IIT-Kanpur&#8217;s new Bachelor of Cyber Security programme may get another chance to join the institute, with the premier institution considering assessing his technical skills instead of pursuing legal action. <\/p>\n<p>The student allegedly left a message on the IIT-Kanpur website saying, &#8220;Site is hacked. All I need is just a fair chance.&#8221;<\/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&#8217;s new Bachelor of Cyber Security programme may get another chance to join the institute, with the premier institution considering assessing his technical skills instead of pursuing legal action. The student allegedly left a message on the IIT-Kanpur website saying, &#8220;Site is hacked. All I need is just a fair chance.&#8221;<\/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":[79,4,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1024846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024846","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=1024846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1024876,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024846\/revisions\/1024876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1024846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1024846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1024846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}