In one of India’s biggest data leaks ever, details of millions of Reliance Jio users have been compromised and have been posted online on a website called magiapk.com. Details such as user name, Jio number, email ID, verification ID and Aadhaar number have all been exposed.
In one of India’s biggest data leaks ever, details of millions of Reliance Jio users have been compromised and have been posted online on a website called magiapk.com. Details such as user name, Jio number, email ID, verification ID and Aadhaar number have all been exposed.
Jio, India's newest telecoms entrant, said that the data on the website, "magicapk.com", appeared to be "unauthentic" and that its subscriber data was safe and maintained with the highest security. But people complained on Twitter about personal information of Jio users being publicly available on Magicapk.com, and some Indian media said that their checks had led them to believe the leak was real.
Jio declined to comment on the newspaper reports. "We have informed law enforcement agencies about the claims of the website and will follow through to ensure strict action is taken," a Jio spokeswoman said.
However, the account of the website that claimed to have dumped the data on its platform has now been suspended. Many users had been registered for Reliance Jio services by using a 12-digit Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) provided number, commonly known as the 'Adhaar' number. The Indian government has begun mandating the use of Adhaar for everything from opening a bank account to filing tax returns.
Jio, run by Reliance Industries Ltd, launched last September and has already added over 100 million subscribers. If the claims of the data breach are true, it would be a big setback for the Indian telecom entrant's aggressive push led by Reliance Chairman Mukesh Ambani. Ambani, India's richest man, through months of free and cut-price deals has propelled Jio into the nation's fastest growing wireless operator. It added 3.9 million subscribers to its network in April.
With inputs from Reuters
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