Several handles on X (formerly known as Twitter) sharing news related to the dark web and data breach claimed that the data of 375 million users of Indian telecom operator, Bharti Airtel, has been leaked and is being sold online on the dark web. It is being claimed that an agent named xenZen is behind this breach, which is openly selling this data on the dark web. The data is being sold in a community named BreachForums.
🚨MAJOR DATA LEAK FOR SALE🚨xenZen is allegedly selling data belonging to Airtel India.
375 million Airtel India customers details including phone, email, address, parents name, gov ID (Aadhaar,etc.) updated to June 2024.
Industry: Telecommunications
Breached in: June 2024
Data… pic.twitter.com/2V9JHDcPBF— Dark Web Informer (@DarkWebInformer) July 3, 2024
It claims that the breach took place in June 2024 and the stolen information includes sensitive information such as user name, date of birth, father’s name, local address, permanent address, alternate number, email ID, gender, nationality, connection type, SIM activation date, Aadhaar, photo ID proof details and address proof details.
However, Airtel has completely denied the news of this data breach. In a statement given to Gadgets 360, the company said, “Based on preliminary investigation, we can confirm that there has been no data breach in Airtel’s system.”
Data breaches happen frequently, involving even large companies. In April this year the news came It was reported that the customer data of Indian audio brand boAt was leaked. The personal data of 7.5 crore users of the company was reportedly found on the dark web. This was revealed in a report by Forbes India. The data leak was said to include personal information of users such as name, address, phone number, email address, customer ID and much more.