The Centre on Monday mentioned that it doesn’t seem that the CoWIN app or its database has been instantly breached as alleged in some stories after a Covid knowledge leak surfaced on 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 Pc Emergency Response Workforce (CERT-In) instantly responded to the risk and reviewed it.
“A Telegram bot was throwing up CoWIN app particulars upon entry of cellphone numbers. The info being accessed by bot from a risk actor database, which appears to have been populated with beforehand breached/stolen knowledge stolen from the previous,” the minister mentioned in a tweet.
With ref to some Alleged Cowin knowledge breaches reported on social media, @IndianCERT has immdtly responded n reviewed this
✅A Telegram Bot was throwing up Cowin app particulars upon entry of cellphone numbers
✅The info being accessed by bot from a risk actor database, which appears to…
— Rajeev Chandrasekhar 🇮🇳 (@Rajeev_GoI) June 12, 2023
He mentioned that it doesn’t seem that the CoWIN app or database has been instantly breached.
“The Nationwide Knowledge Governance coverage has been finalised that may create a standard framework of knowledge storage, entry and safety requirements throughout all the authorities,” mentioned Chandrasekhar.
Earlier, Trinamool Congress chief Saket Gokhale alleged that the info 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 spokesperson of Trinamool Congress, mentioned: “SHOCKING: There was a significant knowledge breach of Modi authorities the place private particulars of all vaccinated Indians together with their cell numbers, Aadhaar numbers, Passport numbers, Voter ID, Particulars of members of the family and many others. 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.
–IANS
