In early June 2026, Dubai-based researcher Rylen Anil reported that a JEE Advanced 2026 cloud storage misconfiguration left roughly 179,600 result records and 187,300 admit-card PDFs readable without authentication. NDTV reported that IIT Roorkee and the Education Ministry acknowledged the issue during admit-card fixes, called the data read-only, and fixed it immediately—but strongly denied a mass breach: no bulk download, no marks or ranks exposed, and less than 0.05% of records accessed.
What aspirants should do
- Treat mobile numbers and DOB as potentially public until IIT publishes a formal FAQ.
- Ignore SMS or WhatsApp “rank correction” or “refund” links citing real registration numbers.
- Monitor official
jeeadv.ac.inchannels only for admit-card or result updates.
Canonical record: JEE Advanced 2026 cloud exposure on BreachHistory.
Source: NDTV