Hacks

     2019 is now almost over. Let's have a go through to the biggest data breaches of 2019.  SBI QUICK: India’s largest bank, the State Bank of India (SBI), left one of its servers unprotected which exposed the data of its 422 million customers. The server, situated in Mumbai, contained partial bank account numbers, bank balances and phones of individuals using the bank’s SBI Quick service. Techcrunch’s investigation revealed that the back-end text message system was left unprotected allowing anyone to track text messages coming in and going out in real-time. On a single day, SBI Quick sends out nearly three million text messages — and database archives had messages dating back to December 2018. The bank has denied all reports of a data breach and has since secured the server. Indian HealthCare Website FireEye spotted that a hacker by the name of ‘fallensky519’ stole the data of 6.8 million users from an Indian healthcare website in February. ...

What Is Airtel? Bharti Airtel Limited, also known as Airtel, is an Indian global telecommunications services company based in Delhi, India. It operates in 18 countries across South Asia and Africa, and also in the Channel Islands. Airtel provides GSM, 3G, 4G LTE, 4G+ mobile services, fixed line broadband and voice services depending upon the country of operation. It is the  third largest mobile network operator in India  with over  325.5  million subscribers . [ Ref :  TRAI – Telecom Subscription Data as on 30th September, 2019 – PAGE 14  ] And the second largest mobile network operator in the world with over 411.42 million subscribers. [ Ref :  Wikipedia  ] What Is The Flaw? The flaw existed in one of their API that allows you to fetch sensitive user information of any Airtel subscriber. It Revealed information like First & Last Name, Gender, Email, Date of Birth, Address, Subscription Information, Device Capability informat...