New Delhi: The Centre on Monday mentioned that it doesn’t seem that the CoWIN app or its database has been straight breached as alleged in some experiences after a Covid knowledge leak surfaced on the social media app Telegram.
Union Minister of State for Electronics and IT, Rajeev Chandrasekhar mentioned that on the subject of some alleged CoWIN knowledge breaches reported on social media, the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) instantly responded to the risk and reviewed it.
“A Telegram bot was throwing up CoWIN app details upon entry of phone numbers. The data being accessed by a bot from a threat actor database, which seems to have been populated with previously breached/stolen data stolen from the past,” the minister mentioned in a tweet.
He mentioned that it doesn’t seem that the CoWIN app or database has been straight breached.
“The National Data Governance policy has been finalised that will create a common framework of data storage, access and security standards across all of the government,” mentioned Chandrasekhar.
Earlier, Trinamool Congress chief Saket Gokhale alleged that the information of a number of residents, together with politicians and journalists who took Covid vaccine, has been leaked and queried why the Centre was not conscious of the incident.
In a collection of tweets, Gokhale, who’s the spokesperson of Trinamool Congress, mentioned: “SHOCKING: There has been a major data breach of Modi government where personal details of all vaccinated Indians including their mobile numbers, Aadhaar numbers, Passport numbers, Voter ID, Details of family members, etc. have been leaked and are freely available.”
He additionally mentioned that the information of a number of senior journalists have additionally been breached. “The personal details of literally every Indian who got a Covid-19 vaccination are freely available on this leaked database,” he claimed.
His remarks come within the wake of the alleged knowledge breach of a number of residents after taking Covid vaccines.
