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Last Friday, a security flaw in Bharti Airtel’s mobile app reportedly exposed data of 300 million subscribers. Ehraz Ahmed, a web security researcher, who flagged the flaw in a blogpost, said the breach revealed information, such as your first name, last name, email, date of birth, address, subscription information, device capability information for 4G, 3G, and GPRS, network activation date, user type (prepaid/postpaid), and current International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) number.

Says Ritesh Bhatia, a Mumbai-based cybersecurity expert: “Although Airtel has fixed this, I can only pray this data is not available to hackers or others who would want to