Aadhaar: Data of 78.2 million Persons Breached. Is UIDAI as Impenetrable as It Claimed to the SC?
Yogesh Sapkale
15 April 2019 1
The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), the agency that issues Aadhaar, has been emphatic in its claim that Aadhaar data is protected by a 13 feet wall. And yet, UIDAI has registered a first information report (FIR) regarding data theft of 7.82 crore people from Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. How did this happen?
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The Cyberabad Police in Madhapur, on the request of UIDAI, had registered the FIR against Hyderabad-based IT Grids (India) Pvt Ltd. While there already is a complaint filed against IT Grids about using Aadhaar data for voter profiling, the new FIR, for the first time, asks for forensic investigation in the data breach, says Srinivas Kodali, an Internet researcher and alumnus of IIT Madras.
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Yogesh Sapkale
15 April 2019 1
The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), the agency that issues Aadhaar, has been emphatic in its claim that Aadhaar data is protected by a 13 feet wall. And yet, UIDAI has registered a first information report (FIR) regarding data theft of 7.82 crore people from Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. How did this happen?
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The Cyberabad Police in Madhapur, on the request of UIDAI, had registered the FIR against Hyderabad-based IT Grids (India) Pvt Ltd. While there already is a complaint filed against IT Grids about using Aadhaar data for voter profiling, the new FIR, for the first time, asks for forensic investigation in the data breach, says Srinivas Kodali, an Internet researcher and alumnus of IIT Madras.
Read Full Article at Money life