IIT Roorkee, which conducted this year’s JEE Advanced exam, strongly denied reports that personal information of millions of candidates was leaked and privacy was breached. The institute said the claims circulating on social media are misleading and factually incorrect. No sensitive data loss or massive data theft due to a temporary technical glitch in a cloud storage The Union Ministry of Education has also issued a statement on the resultsAll data of marks and students are completely safe and intact.
According to IIT RoorkeeOn June 2, 2013, candidates had some difficulty in viewing their admit cards. The institute soon took some technical steps to overcome that difficulty and smoothen the registration process. This caused a small and temporary error in a part of the cloud storage A young 16-year-old cyber security researcher and ethical hacker named Raelyn Anil spotted the flaw and told authorities it allowed access to the database. However, the company immediately corrected the issue and ensured data security.
The company also clarified that there was a technical fault in the storageIt was in read-only or read-only mode. This means that no one can adjust or delete any information there. Additionally, checking the cloud access logs shows that no large amount of data has been downloaded. This error makes less than 0.05 percent of the entire data readable. It has not affected the marks, rank or classification of the students in any way. He said that IIT Roorkee is fully committed to maintaining the transparency and security of the JEE Advanced and Xhosa counseling process.
On the other handThe technological phenomenon has also created reactions in political circles. The opposition Telapoka Janata Party slammed the government over the whole issue and demanded the resignation of the Union Education Minister. The party also announced a protest in June, however, the Ministry of Education and IIT Roorkee urged the public not to believe rumors spread on social media and to have full faith in the examination system. They said some people deliberately misrepresented this minor technicality to undermine public confidence in the testing system.