Department Of Telecommunications: Cybersecurity firm claims data leak of 750 million telecom users, DoT asks telcos for security audit. – ET Telecom

The Department of Telecom has asked service operators for a security audit of their systems following claims by a cybersecurity firm that data of 750 million Indian subscribers has been leaked, a government official said. Cybersecurity firm CloudSEK has claimed that its researchers have found that hackers are selling 1.8 terabyte of a database comprising 750 million Indian mobile consumers on the dark web.