A major data security lapse related to IIT ROORKEE has been revealed, in which more than 30,000 current and private information of alumni leaked online. According to reports, this leak includes mobile numbers, financial details and even caste related information. This data was allegedly exposed on a public website for many years, which has raised serious questions about cyber security and privacy. Now IIT ROORKEE has started investigating the incident, but at the moment it is not clear how and when the data was available in the public domain.

Toi ki Report It has been revealed that the leaked data may be associated with any internal academic record system of the institute, in which security controls were not sufficient. Exposed details include sensitive information like name, mobile number, email ID, address, financial transaction data and category (SC/ST/OBC/General). Cyber experts say that such data can be used in cases like fraud, fishing and identity theft.

The report states that this data could have been accessed without password protection for many years. Meaning, whoever got the link could have downloaded it. Currently, IIT ROORKEE has blocked that access and has started internal security audit.

This is not the first time in India that the data of a big educational institution has been leaked. In the last few years, many universities and education platforms have fallen victim to similar breeches. However, the scale of leaked data in the case of IIT ROORKEE and the details involved make it even more serious.

Cyber Security Experts say that institutions should protect their database from regular security test and encryption, otherwise such breech will threaten students and the privacy of alumni.

Cyber ​​Security Experts have caught a major theft case. There is a possibility of leaking about 16 billion login details. It is said to be one of the biggest cases of data theft. This has affected the official websites of many countries as well as large technology companies including Apple and Google.

This theft of data poses a risk of hackers to personal details, which can be used for controlling accounts, theft of identity and fishing attachments. One of cybernews Report According to, most of the data in the leaked database include credential stuffing sets, steeler malware and information from repaired leaks. Syrber security researchers have said that since the beginning of this year they have detected 30 such datasets in which hackers had made a dent. Each of these datasets includes millions to about 3.5 billion records. This makes this number of about 16 billion records which have been revealed so far.

It is feared that these hackers have used Infoseller logs to steal sensitive data. This has not affected only one company, sector or country. This can cause damage to some big companies like Apple, Google, Facebook and Telegram. This report states that this theft of data has affected corporate platforms, social media companies, developers portals, VPNs and services related to the government of various countries. Along with this, it has been said in this report that there was no dent in any dataset in the hacking of data except a dataset. This means that most of the data stolen in this hacking of data is new.

There was a suitable structure of leaked data. It had login credentials and passwords after URL. This report states that this is a common way of using hackers to steal data. This theft of data had more than 1.6 million records in the dataset with the lowest information and the largest dataset included more than 3.5 billion records. In this, cyber security researchers have found a dataset related to the messaging app Telegram with about 6 crore records.