130 mn Aadhaar numbers were not leaked, they were treated as publicly shareable data: CIS
The Center for Internet and Society has carefully documented the public availability of 130 million Aadhaar numbers, along with other sensitive private information. The leaks originate from the National Social Assistance Programme by the Ministry of Rural Development, the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, also by the Ministry of Rural Development, Daily Online Payment Reports under NREGA by the government of Andhra Pradesh and the Chandranna Bima Scheme, also by the government of Andhra Pradesh. The report notes that despite multiple reports of Aadhaar data leaks, these are not actually leaks in the sense that confidential data available in controlled access has been made public. The issue here is that this is not some kind of cyber wrangling by malicious actors that has made available the data, but instead the Aadhaar numbers and other personal information has been treated as publicly shareable data by the custodians.
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