Indian Airtel: Bug meant users' personal data was found not secure

guest · Dec 6, 2019

Indian Airtel: Bug meant users' personal data was found not secure
December 6, 2019
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-50641608

The flaw, discovered in the Application Program Interface (API) of Airtel's mobile app, could have been used by hackers to access subscribers' information using just their numbers.
That information included things like names, emails, birthdays and addresses.

"There was a technical issue in one of our testing APIs, which was addressed as soon as it was brought to our notice," an Airtel spokesperson told the BBC.
The flaw was found by independent security researcher Ehraz Ahmad. "It took me 15 minutes to find this flaw," he told the BBC.
How serious could this have been?
According to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) report, Airtel had close to 325 million active subscribers by the end of September 2019. It has the third-largest subscriber base after Vodafone-Idea (372 million) and Reliance Jio (355 million).
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