No mass data leak: JEE (Advanced) authorities

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• NEW DELHI: JEE (Advanced) authorities on Friday said a cloud storage misconfiguration identified by an ethical hacker earlier this week did not result in any mass extraction of candidate data and had no impact on examination records, results or rankings.
• The clarification came after social media claims that candidate records and admit card documents linked to JEE (Advanced) 2026 had been exposed through a cloud storage vulnerability.In a statement, IIT-Roorkee, which is conducting JEE (Advanced) 2026, said the issue arose during technical interventions undertaken on June 2 to assist candidates facing difficulties in accessing admit cards and to ensure smooth functioning of the registration process.“An ethical hacker, Rylen Anil, identified this misconfiguration and reported that he could access the database.
• The issue was immediately rectified and access to the data was restricted,” it said.According to IIT Roorkee, the affected storage was read-only, making it impossible for data to be altered...