India, June 3 -- A 16-year-old cybersecurity researcher has flagged a major data security issue on the JEE Advanced 2026 results website, prompting a swift response from the organising institute, IIT Roorkee.

Rylen Anil (@DarthKermy72747) claimed that the JEE Advanced 2026 candidate result infrastructure had a public cloud storage misconfiguration that exposed large volumes of candidate data without authentication.

"JEE Advanced 2026 candidate/result infrastructure ([https://cdata.jeeadv.ac.in/result2026/](https://cdata.jeeadv.ac.in/result2026/)) had a public cloud storage misconfiguration exposing bulk candidate data without auth.

This exposed ~179.6k result records and ~187.3k admit-card PDFs, including candidate names, DOBs and mobi...