CoWIN app or its database not breached directly; Centre clarifies amid rumours [details]

The Centre on Monday mentioned that it does not seem that the CoWIN app or its database has been straight breached as alleged in some reviews after a Covid knowledge leak surfaced on social media app Telegram.

Union Minister of State for Electronics and IT, Rajeev Chandrasekhar mentioned that close to some alleged CoWIN knowledge breaches reported on social media, the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) instantly responded to the menace and reviewed it.

“A Telegram bot was throwing up CoWINapp particulars upon entry of cellphone numbers. The knowledge being accessed by bot from a menace actor database, which appears to have been populated with beforehand breached/stolen knowledge stolen from the previous,” the minister mentioned in a tweet.

He mentioned that it does not seem that the CoWIN app or database has been straight breached.

“The National Data Governance coverage has been finalised that can create a standard framework of knowledge storage, entry and safety requirements throughout the entire authorities,” 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 sequence of tweets, Gokhale, who’s spokesperson of Trinamool Congress, mentioned: “SHOCKING: There has been a serious knowledge breach of Modi authorities the place private particulars of all vaccinated Indians together with their cell numbers, Aadhaar numbers, Passport numbers, Voter ID, Details of relations and so forth. have been leaked and are freely accessible.”

He additionally mentioned that knowledge of a number of senior journalists have additionally been breached.

“The private particulars of actually each Indian who bought a Covid-19 vaccination are freely accessible 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.

(With inputs from IANS)