Pak-based hackers behind data leak of 26L Airtel users

New Delhi:  The recent data leak of at least 26 lakh Airtel users from Jammu and Kashmir was the handiwork of state-sponsored Pakistan-based hackers, who kept creating new accounts to put data on the web and somehow tried to sell them for $3500 in Bitcoin, fresh details emerged on Thursday.
In 2018, the cyber cell of Delhi Police had identified a Pakistan-based hacker group that defaced and hacked the Indian government websites. The hacking group was later identified as ‘TeamLeets’ working at the behest of Pakistan’s spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).
The same hacking group is now behind the Airtel data leak, that initially dumped the data via a domain on the internet and threatened to leak more Airtel data via a new Twitter handle that goes by the name of ‘Red Rabbit Teams’.
The new Twitter account, however, has been restricted by the micro-blogging site for “unusual activity”.
TeamLeets then created another Twitter handle that goes by the name of ‘PANAMA-iii (Scandal and Mega Database)’, which tweeted fresh links to another subset of data from the original sample of 26 lakh J&K users, which may belong to the people from the Indian Army. This particular account was also deleted later.
“TeamLeets, which is a Pakistan-based hacking group, is behind the Airtel data leak,” independent cyber security researcher Rajshekhar Rajaharia told IANS when contacted.