Vodafone Idea (VI) denies report alleging data leak of 20 million postpaid customers

guest · Aug 30, 2022

August 29, 2022

After a cyber-security research firm claimed that call data records of around 20 million customers of Vodafone Idea (Vi) was leaked and accessed by cyber-criminals, the telecom operator has denied the breach.

Cyber-security research firm CyberX9 claimed in its report that the call data records of 20.6 million postpaid Vi customers were leaked due to vulnerabilities in the company's systems.
The report claimed that data leaked included call time, duration of the call, from where the call was made, full name of the subscriber, address SMS details and roaming details.
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However, Vi denied the claim, saying that there was no data breach and the report is "false and malicious".

The company said that it learnt about a "potential vulnerability in its billing communication" and that "was immediately fixed" and a thorough forensic analysis was conducted to "ascertain there was no data breach".
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CyberX9, however, said that the company's claim that they have conducted a forensic audit is absurd.

According to CyberX9, call logs and other data of millions of Vi customers have been leaked for the past two years, which was accessed by hackers.
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CyberX9:
‎‏Vodafone Idea exposed sensitive and confidential call logs and other personal data of ~301 million of its customers for the last ~2 years

CyberX9's cyber security research team discovered multiple critical security vulnerabilities in Vodafone Idea ("Vi") due to which Vi exposed customer’s sensitive and confidential personal data including call logs of nearly 301 million customers to the whole internet. This also includes all (~20 million) postpaid Vi customers. Vi left one of the main discovered vulnerability open for cyber attacks for the last ~2 years. Vi was vulnerable since last ~2 years to one of the main discovered vulnerability but Vi only fixed the data expose only after we discovered and responsibly reported it now.

Vodafone Idea had put millions of its customers data (call logs, etc.) at absolute risk and absolutely damaged their privacy of private lives due to Vodafone Idea’s carelessness towards security of customer data. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities was very easily possible on a large scale by a malicious attacker.
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