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Breach of privacy: Data of 250,000 NEET students being sold online

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Mayank Jain 

Data of 250,000 NEET students being sold online

In yet another case of potential breach of privacy, data of students who took the National Eligibility Cum Entrance Test this year is available for buyers through a website. The website [name withheld till it’s taken down] claims to have access to records of 250,000 students along with their gender, roll numbers, rank in the exam as well as their mobile numbers.

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First Published: Thu, July 19 2018. 02:02 IST