Airtel Exposes Data of 325 Million users vai there Android App Breaking

Airtel's mobile app had a serious security flaw that likely exposed the data of its nearly 325 million customers, which would include person information such as names, emails, birthdays, addresses, even IMEI numbers of their mobile device. Airtel appears to have acknowledged the issue on its mobile app and said it has issued a fix for the same.

The bug was in the Application Program Interface (API) of Airtel's mobile app, according to independent security researcher Ehraz Ahmed, who told the BBC that it took him about 15 minutes to find the flaw. Ahmed has also posted a video, which shows a script being used to fetch the information from the Airtel mobile app's API. He also stated on his blog that the video and case study were only made public after the issue was acknowledged and fixed by Airtel.