Data Breach of 375 Million Airtel Users Containing Personal Information on Sale in Dark Web Company Denies Hack

Airtel has claimed that the data of all its users is safe. When the news of data breach spread, Airtel said in a statement that the data breach is completely baseless, and the data of all our users is safe. Earlier, Airtel’s name came up in the latest data breach, where an X handle has claimed that the private data of 375 million Indian users of the company is being leaked and sold. According to this claim, the breached data includes very sensitive information like users’ name, address, mobile number, family and Aadhaar information. However, the hacker could not provide any concrete evidence on his claims.

Several handles on X (formerly known as Twitter) sharing news related to the dark web and data breach claimed that the data of 375 million users of Indian telecom operator, Bharti Airtel, has been leaked and is being sold online on the dark web. It is being claimed that an agent named xenZen is behind this breach, which is openly selling this data on the dark web. The data is being sold in a community named BreachForums.

It claims that the breach took place in June 2024 and the stolen information includes sensitive information such as user name, date of birth, father’s name, local address, permanent address, alternate number, email ID, gender, nationality, connection type, SIM activation date, Aadhaar, photo ID proof details and address proof details.

However, Airtel has completely denied the news of this data breach. In a statement given to Gadgets 360, the company said, “Based on preliminary investigation, we can confirm that there has been no data breach in Airtel’s system.”

Data breaches happen frequently, involving big companies as well. In April this year, news came that customer data of India’s audio brand boAt was leaked. The company’s 7.5 crore users’ private data was reportedly leaked on the dark web. This was revealed in a Forbes India report. The data leak was said to include users’ private information such as name, address, phone number, email address, customer ID and much more.