India, June 5 -- In a firm rebuttal, 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 also stressed that no sensitive information was compromised or mass-extracted following what it described as a temporary cloud storage misconfiguration.

The clarification comes amid widespread discussions on social media over alleged exposure of candidate data, prompting IIT Roorkee to issue detailed explanations regarding the incident and the technical issues involved.

The institute, which conducted the JEE (Advanced) examination this year, said the information being circulated o...