{
  "id": 16090167,
  "title": "Indian tech company eMudhra announces withdrawal from certificate business after security incident",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/22/indian-tech-company-emudhra-announces-withdrawal-from-certificate",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-22T18:46:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Record",
    "slug": "the-record",
    "url": "https://therecord.media/indian-tech-company-announces-withdrawal-certificate-business-incident"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The issue was publicized by cybersecurity researcher Scott Helme, who published a blog saying that instead of a random 384-bit number, one of the company's private keys was just the number four.",
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  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 3,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "The Register",
        "title": "Disgraced Indian cert issuer leaves the cert issuing business",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/22/disgraced-indian-cert-issuer-leaves-the-cert-issuing-business",
        "published": "2026-10-22T16:58:25.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Ars Technica",
        "title": "Disgraced eMudhra drops out of TLS business after using cert private key of 4",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/22/disgraced-emudhra-drops-out-of-tls-business-after-using-cert-private",
        "published": "2026-10-22T20:17:52.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}