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The Economic Times
The Economic Times

IIT Roorkee: JEE-Advanced data breach claims misleading, factually incorrect

Delhi: Claims of a data breach and privacy violation affecting lakhs of JEE (Advanced) aspirants are "misleading and factually incorrect", the IIT-Roorkee said on Friday, asserting that no sensitive information was compromised or mass-extracted following a temporary cloud-storage misconfiguration.

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee, which conducted the exam this year, said the information circulating on social media "does not accurately reflect what happened" and alleged an attempt to spread misinformation.

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