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Airtel data breach exposes personal data of 32 crore subscribers

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...