Jio Customer Database of over 120 million users leaked, could be biggest data breach in India

[snookypookums]

[QUOTE]In an interesting development , Jio customer data has been leaked on an independent website named magicapk. Several sensitive details including first name, last name ,mobile number, email-id,circle, SIM Activation Date and even Aadhaar Number have been exposed. To my disbelief I found my own details in the database and also couple of my colleagues are affected too.

[B]It could be the biggest data breach in India as the data leak in question over pertains to a database of over 120 million users of Reliance Jio. [/B]The website seems already a little sluggish and expected to go down soon as more users rush to find out if their personal data has been leaked. It took a couple or three tries for the number to show up on the website. It is not clear at this moment why this data has been leaked or how someone outside Jio got access to sensitive customer data.[/QUOTE]

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For context, this is fucking [I]huge[/I] and is currently blowing up in India right now. Especially in light of the fact that people in India are realizing that not only does a privacy law not exist in India ([URL="http://www.medianama.com/2015/08/223-privacy-india-aadhaar/"]in fact, the government themselves have argued and said it's not guaranteed[/URL]) but the fact that it also reveals the Aadhaar card number, which is a poorly organized, illegitimate attempt at creating a National Identity system in India and tied to a great many government and essential programs.

Closer to home, several of the people I know have tried it out before the site got the internet hug of death and found all of their personal information was now easily viewable. :unimpressed:

[PresidentGandhi]

Revolution when, comrade? Fuck this failure of a government filled with incompetent, selfish cow-fuckers.

And for people wondering why I'm blaming the government, the Jio network was heavily pushed and endorsed by the Indian government. And the company that owns it has strong ties with the current members of Parliament.