IIT Roorkee refutes JEE Advanced data breach allegations, calls social media claims misleading

The Union Ministry of Education on Friday denied reports that data of those who appeared for the Joint Entrance Exam (Advanced) had been breached.

The claims were misleading and factually incorrect, said the ministry.

The results of the JEE (Advanced), which is conducted for admissions to Indian Institutes of Technology, were declared on June 1 by IIT-Roorkee, which was the organising institute for this year’s examination.

On the next day, a social media user who claims to be a cybersecurity researcher posted that a public cloud storage linked to the result system had been configured in a way that allowed access to data without authentication.