CoWin Data Breach: Personal data made available on Telegram.
CoWin Data Breach: Claims of a massive data breach emerged on Monday with the government later promising to look into the matter. The purported breach has affected all Indian citizens – including high-profile political leaders – who had uploaded their information on the CoWIN vaccination portal. The leaked data is reportedly available on social media platform Telegram and can now be accessed by any user.
SHOCKING:
There has been a MAJOR data breach of Modi Govt where personal details of ALL vaccinated Indians including their mobile nos., Aadhaar numbers, Passport numbers, Voter ID, Details of family members etc. have been leaked & are freely available.
Some examples 👇
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— Saket Gokhale (@SaketGokhale) June 12, 2023
According to a report by The Fourth News, personal information of Indian citizens, including their Aadhaar card, and PAN card details are available on messaging platform Telegram. The development was also flagged by Opposition leaders including TMC’s Saket Gokhale who tweeted his interactions with the Telegram chatbot.
CoWin Data Breach: A report of the data breach of Indian citizens emerged on Monday. The report claimed that the personal information of all Indian citizens, who registered themselves on the COWIN portal-a government-run Covid vaccination portal, is available on Telegram.
According to a report, personal information of Indian citizens, including their Aadhaar card, and PAN card details are available on messaging platform Telegram.
CoWin Data Breach! Aadhaar, PAN Card info, shared on Covid vaccination portal, made public by Telegram: Report
The report said that when a mobile number registered with the COWIN portal is entered, the Telegram bot discloses the number of the ID card used for vaccination along with gender, birth year, and name of the vaccination center, and his/her doses.
CoWin Data Breach: With this massive data breach, the Aadhaar card, voter ID, and PAN card numbers of Indian citizens are accessible to anyone on Telegram.
The alleged leak could impact more than 100 core individuals who have secured vaccinations after signing up through the COWIN portal. This includes more than 4 crore children between the age of 12-14 and over 37 crore people over the age of 45, a significant part of which could be senior citizens.
A technical team of the Health Ministry is also investigating the allegations of a data breach of the CoWin platform, highly placed sources.
CoWin Data Breach on Telegram: Aadhaar, PAN Card, Birth Details of Citizens Made Public
CoWin Data Breach: The source said all application programming interfaces (API) associated with COWIN are being looked over, and the Health Ministry is expected to post a clarification in this regard. The bot in question, which was publishing this information has been disabled.
The report said that when a mobile number registered with the CoWIN portal is entered, the Telegram bot discloses the number of the ID card used for vaccination along with gender, birth year, and name of the vaccination centre, and his/her doses. With this massive data breach, the Aadhaar card, voter ID, and PAN card numbers of Indian citizens are accessible to anyone on Telegram.
CoWin Data Breach: In the latest update, the developers of the Telegram bot that exposed the sensitive information from the leaked Co-WIN database are disabled now. The developers of the bot took the step after Manorama broke the story. Officials told Hindustan Times, Livemint’s sister organization that whenever such a report emerges a thorough audit is conducted to check database access.
In another development, the Centre has also responded to the news report. Government officials told CNBC TV-18; they have found “discrepancies in data leak of the screenshots of the CoWIN app”.
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Government officials have also rejected the hacking of the CoWIN app but added they are probing if there was any unauthorized access to the CoWIN app.
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