The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee has dismissed allegations of a large-scale data breach affecting lakhs of JEE (Advanced) aspirants, calling the claims 'misleading and factually incorrect'.
The institute has stressed that no sensitive information was compromised or mass-extracted following what it described as a temporary cloud storage misconfiguration.
IIT Roorkee maintained that the affected storage was in 'read only' mode, meaning no changes could be made to the data. It also said there was no evidence of large-scale data extraction.
The institute further asserted that 'no sensitive information was compromised or mass-extracted' and added that the incident had 'zero impact on examination outcomes, including marks, ranks, and category of the candidates'.
