How much are you willing to risk for convenient and free data . Are you willing to risk losing your very own identity . That is exactly wh...
How much are you willing to risk for convenient and free data . Are you willing to risk losing your very own identity . That is exactly what Jio has put into danger as a massive data leak of arounf 120 million Jio customers personal information has shocked tech lover around the country . Today we give you an indepth look at how big exaclty is this data breach and our opinions on how you can keep your online idenlity safe .
So first lets setup a timeline for the story around 8:30 or 9:00 pm last night as conformed by our friend over at phonearena.com site popup up seemingly out of nowhere . Magicapk.com had a text box with a grim message on top . Apperently it could reveal details of jio customers as long as you input a Jio number . Now most of the time sites like these are scams and i would tell you guys never input your number in tere because almost always they just collecting your number to sell to other companies but in this instance this wasn't a scam .
Magicapk.com had successfully gained access to an unknown portion of the Jio customer database and what is more scary is the fact that they able to reveal the complete information of some of the jio numbers . So what is that include . well as your first name middle name and last name your mobile number some activation date and time and in some cases even your email id circle id and here's the worst part your alternative number and aadhaar card number . So is this authentic as much as it shocks us to say it yes . Yes it is we have conformed with several first party and third party sources that the aadhaar number being provided by the website of some of the Jio customer is a hundred percent authentic . So why should this matter to us matter to you . Even though this leak is kind of limited and the website is already offline . Best case scenerio we've just going to get a lot more spammed all spaced on the information leak but the worst case scenerio you know the one that's really scary , thers's a good chance that there are people out htere who have the adhar number of more that a million jio users and as aadhaar is linked to biometric security and accepted it as a proof of identity all over the country . This could lead to identity theft of tens of thousand if not millions of indians . This is probably the biggest security breach in india's telecomm industry has ever seen .
So what do we do, the first thing to do in a situation like this is catch the person who's behind all of this and this hosting for magicapk.com has been suspended the site's account but that doesn't mean that they cannot access tha database any more they can make a new website with other free hosting and can do the same with that database . well sadly there is not much information about to be found about who the owner is beside except that the site is indian and has been registered by godaddy.com and their proxy username .
So first lets setup a timeline for the story around 8:30 or 9:00 pm last night as conformed by our friend over at phonearena.com site popup up seemingly out of nowhere . Magicapk.com had a text box with a grim message on top . Apperently it could reveal details of jio customers as long as you input a Jio number . Now most of the time sites like these are scams and i would tell you guys never input your number in tere because almost always they just collecting your number to sell to other companies but in this instance this wasn't a scam .
Magicapk.com had successfully gained access to an unknown portion of the Jio customer database and what is more scary is the fact that they able to reveal the complete information of some of the jio numbers . So what is that include . well as your first name middle name and last name your mobile number some activation date and time and in some cases even your email id circle id and here's the worst part your alternative number and aadhaar card number . So is this authentic as much as it shocks us to say it yes . Yes it is we have conformed with several first party and third party sources that the aadhaar number being provided by the website of some of the Jio customer is a hundred percent authentic . So why should this matter to us matter to you . Even though this leak is kind of limited and the website is already offline . Best case scenerio we've just going to get a lot more spammed all spaced on the information leak but the worst case scenerio you know the one that's really scary , thers's a good chance that there are people out htere who have the adhar number of more that a million jio users and as aadhaar is linked to biometric security and accepted it as a proof of identity all over the country . This could lead to identity theft of tens of thousand if not millions of indians . This is probably the biggest security breach in india's telecomm industry has ever seen .
So what do we do, the first thing to do in a situation like this is catch the person who's behind all of this and this hosting for magicapk.com has been suspended the site's account but that doesn't mean that they cannot access tha database any more they can make a new website with other free hosting and can do the same with that database . well sadly there is not much information about to be found about who the owner is beside except that the site is indian and has been registered by godaddy.com and their proxy username .
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