Reports suggest India's Aadhaar national ID database was breached, exposing information of ~1.2B Indians and allowing creation of admin accounts by other admins
In 2010 India started scanning personal details like names, addresses, dates of birth, mobile numbers, and more …
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Related Coverage
- Rs 500, 10 minutes, and you have access to billion Aadhaar details The Tribune
- View article Gizmodo
- View article Washington Post
- Aadhaar's Dirty Secret Is Out, Anyone Can Be Added as a Data Admin The Quint
- Data leak means India's ID database details can be bought online for £6 The Guardian · Michael Safi
- UIDAI says Tribune story ‘misreporting’, read how that is wrong The Tribune
- Aadhaar database access found to be sold on WhatsApp for Rs 500; UIDAI official acknowledges major data breach Firstpost
- View article BGR India
- Comments on access to Aadhaar database being available for as little as Rs 500 MediaNama · Nikhil Pahwa
- Over a billion Aadhaar details sold at a mere Rs 500: Report BGR India
- India probes report on breach of national identity database Reuters · Manoj Kumar
Discussion
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@thetribunechd
@thetribunechd
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#TRIBUNEINVESTIGATION — #SECURITYBREACH | by @RachnaKhaira Rs 500, 10 minutes, and you have access to billion #Aadhaar details | Group tapping @UIDAI data may have sold access to 1 lakh service providers http://www.tribuneindia.com/ ... #AadhaarData http://twitter.com/...
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@sitaramyechury
Sitaram Yechury
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The perils of making Aadhaar mandatory and linking it to bank accounts, as insisted upon by Modi govt, are visible here. Do we need more proof to stop this madness? http://www.tribuneindia.com/ ...
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@thequint
The Quint
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Exclusive | Your personal information is not safe on the Aadhaar database. Anyone can become an admin of the portal. Here's how. @MeghnadBose93 reports. http://www.thequint.com/...
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@randomlysid
Siddharth Nair
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Worth noting that according to the article, the design of the UIDAI portal was such that “VLEs” (village level operators in-charge of printing Aadhar cards) had unfettered access to the entire database. Pretty sure my school compsci lab in 2003 had better sandboxing.
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@nixxin
Nikhil Pahwa
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1. That the UIDAI was badly architected as a single point of failure is something many have said for years: a single point of failure here gives access to all the data. As the usage and linkage of Aadhaar grows, this is going to increase. Bad, bad design. Gets worse with SRDH
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@nixxin
Nikhil Pahwa
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Here you go folks: another problem with UIDAI: an admin can make anyone else an admin, and that person can gain access to aadhaar info http://www.thequint.com/... Hey @uidai another story for your to respond to. You guys really screwed this up.
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@rameshsrivats
Ramesh Srivats
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Aadhaar details of over a billion people available for Rs. 500? Oh No! The government may now try to fix this by banning 500 rupee notes. http://www.tribuneindia.com/ ...
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@troyhunt
Troy Hunt
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I know how worried friends in India have been for a while now about #Aadhaar and this is why: if you digitise it, sooner or later you must expect it will be abused http://twitter.com/...
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@raju
Raju Narisetti
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This is how Trump is embraced by ruling regimes around the world—India's @narendramodi party calling stories about its #Aadhaar national ID database leaks as “fake news” https://twitter.com/...
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@pranavdixit
@pranavdixit
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A local Indian newspaper was able to access the private data of more than a billion Indians for just $8. http://twitter.com/...