Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), the Indian state-owned telecommunications company is neither known for it's quality of service nor for customer satisfaction. To make their services more user-friendly they started allowing quick online recharge facility from their website, but this service has a data privacy loophole where anybody can check any BSNL subscribers prepaid balance with expiry date. While this may not sound a big security risk the data exposed can be used to device social-engineering phishing attacks, for example - a malicious hacker can fetch this data and utilize it for calling the subscriber as an BSNL employee supplying this information to gain trust of the consumer and asking them to order a highly subsidized online recharge from a fake website.

Some cellphone carriers restrict users from desktop web-browsing on low value data plans and when trying to access any website from computer they are blocked and something similar to following is shown instead of loading the webpage.

Similar to the free SMS on Airtel trick, free GPRS internet hacks works on many mobile networks like Airtel, BSNL, Vodafone, Idea and Reliance, these hacks work for some time and then gets patched when company decides to close down the open access point.

A brand new free gprs internet hack is now said to be working on Reliance mobile network, our reader Santosh Bhatt from Bharatpur, India was kind enough to share this with us, If you are a Reliance mobile customer pls. follow the steps next to enable free GPRS access on your mobile phones.