This Telegram Bot is Selling Your Data | 68 Crore Indians Affected

By Asad Ashraf

July 4, 2026

A Telegram bot called Hiteckgroop is reportedly selling sensitive personal data of Indians, including Aadhaar, PAN, and passport details, addresses, family records, and location information, for as little as ₹2.50 per search using just a mobile number. The piece traces the data to earlier breaches (BigBasket, Alien Text Base, 1Win, and others) and opens with a case in Bihar where a family used the bot to locate a missing relative. It quotes several users of the bot (for tenant verification, marketing, and curiosity) and cybersecurity expert Rupesh Mittal, who links the tool to institutional data breaches and raises concerns about law-enforcement use without oversight. The article closes by invoking Shoshana Zuboff's surveillance capitalism framework, framing the bot as an illicit, vernacular version of the same data-extraction logic.

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