TMC’s Saket Gokhale alleges data breach of senior politicians, others on CoWin
Hindustan TimesThe Trinamool Congress on Monday alleged that the country’s Covid-19 vaccination tracking platform CoWin has been breached with details of senior political leaders available on social media application Telegram. TMC national spokesperson Saket Gokhale shared the screenshots of the breach on his official Twitter account. According to screenshots shared by Gokhale, the leaked date includes Aadhaar card numbers, along with gender, date of birth and vaccination centre of senior leaders including Rajya Sabha MP and TMC leader Derek O’Brien, former union minister P Chidambaram, Congress leaders Jairam Ramesh and KC Venugopal. In another set of screenshots Gokhale shared, the leaked data also included details of health secretary Rajesh Bhushan, deputy chairman Rajya Sabha Haribansh Narayan Singh, Rajya Sabha MPs Sushmita Dev, Abhishek Manu Singhvi, and Sanjay Raut.