Over the previous two and a half years, an enormous variety of residents nationwide have acquired their COVID-19 vaccinations from healthcare suppliers. While sustaining the confidentiality of citizen info is paramount, with the federal government entrusted with the duty of making certain its safety, a major breach not too long ago occurred. Details of those hundreds of residents have been leaked on a Telegram channel. The Fourth News, a Malayalam information portal, reported that the leaked knowledge encompasses not solely atypical residents but additionally outstanding political figures and famend personalities who had registered themselves on the federal government portal.
Remarkably, the Telegram channel contains complete info equivalent to a person’s Aadhaar card, pan card, telephone quantity, gender, and date of delivery, amongst different particulars. Reportedly, one can entry the knowledge by merely getting into an individual’s title.
CoWIN Data Breach On Telegram
Apart from media shops, a couple of individuals have been additionally reporting their knowledge breach on the Telegram bot, which was reportedly taken down on Monday morning. As reported by the Malayalam portal, the CoWIN knowledge breach resulted within the leak of main info together with the individual’s Aadhaar quantity, cellular quantity, title, date of delivery, and extra.
Apart from frequent civilians, private particulars of Union Health Ministry Rajesh Bhushan, his wife-MLA Ritu Khanduri, CoWIN excessive energy panel chairman Ram Sewak Sharma, Kerala Health Minister Veena George, Congress General Secretary KC Venugopal, and Union Minister of State Meenakshi Lekhi had been additionally leaked on the portal.
Political Leaders React To COVID Data Leak
While the federal government is but to instantly touch upon the event, a couple of political leaders have reacted to the identical and shared it on social media.
In a sequence of tweets, MP Supriya Sule, whereas lashing out on the authorities, wrote, “The time has come for the federal government to step up and enact strong knowledge safety laws that unequivocally upholds our privateness. We demand motion, transparency, and the peace of mind that our private knowledge can be shielded from any additional breaches.”
In its Digital India frenzy, GoI has woefully ignored citizen privateness. Personal knowledge of each single Indian who received COVID-19 vaccination is publicly obtainable. Including my very own knowledge. Who let this occur? Why is GoI sitting on a knowledge safety legislation? @AshwiniVaishnaw should reply. pic.twitter.com/mlmq0OuRK5
— Karti P Chidambaram (@KartiPC) June 12, 2023
MP Karti P Chidambaram, whose particulars had been additionally leaked on the Telegram channel, shared a screenshot of his particulars and wrote, “In its Digital India frenzy, GoI has woefully ignored citizen privacy. Personal data of every single Indian who got COVID-19 vaccination is publicly available. Including my own data. Who let this happen? Why is GoI sitting on a data protection law? Ashwini Vaishnaw must answer.”
SHOCKING:
There has been a MAJOR knowledge breach of Modi Govt the place private particulars of ALL vaccinated Indians together with their cellular nos., Aadhaar numbers, Passport numbers, Voter ID, Details of members of the family and many others. have been leaked & are freely obtainable.
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— Saket Gokhale (@SaketGokhale) June 12, 2023
Trinamool Congress chief Saket Gokhale, whereas expressing considerations concerning the newest knowledge breach, additionally shared a couple of screenshots of well-known personalities, whose particulars had been leaked by the portal.
