India, June 3 -- In yet another controversy, the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee is moving to protect its image following a massive data exposure incident. The vulnerability left 179,600 result records and 187,300 admit-card PDFs of students who applied for the JEE Advanced 2026 accessible online. According to media reports, a cybersecurity researcher accidentally discovered a major data exposure flaw linked to the examination. The young researcher alleged that a cloud storage misconfiguration put the personal information of thousands of students at risk over the internet.

What Is the JEE Advanced 2026 Data Leak Risk?

On June 2, a 16-year-old cybersecurity researcher who goes by the online handle "DarthKermy" discovered a c...