{"id":830078,"date":"2024-07-06T10:38:19","date_gmt":"2024-07-06T05:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=830078"},"modified":"2024-07-06T10:38:19","modified_gmt":"2024-07-06T05:08:19","slug":"airtel-refutes-data-breach-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/07\/06\/airtel-refutes-data-breach-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Airtel refutes data breach claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar, July 5: Airtel India has vehemently denied allegations of a data breach involving 375 million customer records reportedly put up for sale on the dark web. The telecom giant dismisses these claims as a \u201cdesperate attempt to tarnish Airtel\u2019s reputation by vested interests.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement, the controversy arose when Dark Web Informer, a Twitter account, reported that an unverified hacker named xenZen was allegedly selling Airtel India customer data on BreachForums, a dark web community. The purported breach, claimed to have occurred in June 2024, supposedly includes sensitive information such as mobile numbers, names, birth dates, addresses, Aadhaar details, and more. The data was reportedly being offered for USD 50,000 in XMR cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar, July 5: Airtel India has vehemently denied allegations of a data breach involving 375 million customer records reportedly put up for sale on the dark web. The telecom giant dismisses these claims as a \u201cdesperate attempt to tarnish Airtel\u2019s reputation by vested interests.\u201d According to a statement, the controversy arose when Dark Web Informer, a Twitter account, reported that an unverified hacker named xenZen was allegedly selling Airtel India customer data on BreachForums, a dark web community. The purported breach, claimed to have occurred in June 2024, supposedly includes sensitive information such as mobile numbers, names, birth dates, addresses, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,4,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-830078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-greater-kashmir","category-newspapers","category-telecom-greater-kashmir"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830078","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=830078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=830078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=830078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=830078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}