IIT Roorkee has dismissed claims of a massive JEE-Advanced data breach, clarifying that a brief cloud storage misconfiguration occurred without compromising sensitive information.
IIT Roorkee termed the claims 'misleading'
Jun 05, 2026
04:33 pm
What's the storyThe Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee has dismissed allegations of a major data breach affecting JEE (Advanced) 2026 aspirants.
The institute termed the claims "misleading and factually incorrect."
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