Airtel, India’s second-largest telecom operator, on Friday denied any breach of its methods after experiences of an alleged safety breach raised issues amongst its clients.
The telecom group, which additionally sells productiveness and safety options to companies, mentioned it performed a “thorough investigation” and located that there was no breach of Airtel’s methods.
The telecom large, which has amassed almost 375 million subscribers in India, dismissed media experiences of the alleged breach as “nothing however a determined try to tarnish Airtel’s popularity by vested pursuits”.
The corporate’s assertion adopted unconfirmed experiences of a possible knowledge leak circulating on native shops and social media, inflicting concern amongst Airtel’s subscriber base.
An alleged knowledge dealer appeared at a distinguished cybercrime discussion board this week providing alleged private info of round 375 million customers, together with cellphone numbers, e mail addresses, Aadhaar ID numbers and residential addresses, on the market.
Earlier this week, TechCrunch reviewed a pattern of knowledge shared by the dealer and located some discrepancies in its information. Some safety specialists have additionally questioned the legitimacy of the alleged incident.
“We do not suppose it is Airtel’s database. It seems to be a mixed database from a number of databases and the actor is making an attempt to promote it as an Airtel database,” Rahul Sasi, founder and CEO of cybersecurity startup CloudSEK, informed TechCrunch primarily based on an evaluation of a pattern of the information.
It’s noteworthy that the message from the discussion board was deleted shortly after the incident turned recognized on the Web. The discussion board additionally completely blocked the dealer’s account as a suspected “fraud”.