New Delhi: Bharti Airtel has refused claims of a data breach following reports that the personal information of 375 million customers was allegedly being sold on the dark web. The telecom giant dismissed these allegations, describing them as an attempt to damage the company’s reputation. An Airtel spokesperson informed Moneycontrol that an exhaustive investigation had confirmed no breach of Airtel’s systems.
The reports had suggested that the compromised data included phone numbers, email addresses, residential addresses, and Aadhaar numbers. These reports also mentioned a threat actor named ‘xenZen’ who allegedly listed the database for sale on a dark web forum, demanding $50,000 for the information. Moneycontrol has not been able to verify the authenticity of these breach claims.
