Hackers claimed to have leaked data of military personnel using the Bharti Airtel network in Jammu and Kashmir. However, the company has denied any breach in its system.
The group that leaked the data is the Red Rabbit Team and has hacked some Indian websites and posted its data on the web pages of the same portal. Hackers have shared links to these web pages in response to cybersecurity researcher Rajasekhar Rajhariya's tweet. Also tagged some media groups.
There has been no response from the Indian Army when the military personnel's data was leaked. Although an army officer said that we have not received any such information, it seems that the vested selfish elements have done it with wrong intentions.
A spokesperson for Bharti Airtel said, "We assure that there is no dent in our system, as this group is claiming." Many stakeholders, apart from Airtel, have access to data according to regulatory requirements. We have informed the concerned authority about this matter. We have asked to investigate it and take appropriate action.
An Airtel spokesperson said, "The group has been in contact with our teams for the last 15 months and is constantly making contradictory claims." This group is posting incorrect data from a region. The links they shared could be accessed from the customers' names, mobile numbers, and addresses, but after some time these links stopped working.
The threat to leak data soon
The Red Rabbit team has claimed that it has access to Bharti Airtel's data at an all-India level and will soon leak some more data. At the same time, Rajahria said that hackers have not been able to provide any concrete evidence about Bharti Airtel's access to All India data. It is also not clear how they got customer data. Their claims of leaking data can also be fake. The videos on the SDR portal look genuine, but only a small amount of data can be leaked.
Pakistanis can be hackers
These hackers may be from Pakistan, Rajahria said. The website that was used to upload Airtel's data was hacked on December 4, 2020, by Mr. Clay (TeamLeats Pakistani Hackers Group). This indicates that the Pakistani hacker group TeamLeats may be behind it.