CoWIN not hacked, 15 cr Indians' data safe: Researcher
After reports surfaced that India's vaccine registration portal CoWIN has been hacked and database of 15 crore people is up for sale, Indian cyber security researchers said that the website behind this is itself fake and is a Bitcoin scam. Independent cyber security researcher Rajshekhar Rajaharia told IANS that the hacking group's website is fake, and they are running a Bitcoin scam. The CoWIN data is safe," Rajaharia told IANS.Earlier, French security researcher Baptiste Robert aka Elliot Alderson also retweeted the post by the "Dark Leak Market" but later deleted it. In order to minimise errors and the subsequent inconvenience caused to the citizens for online appointments for vaccination, the government last month introduced a new feature of "four digit security code" in the CoWIN application.
CoWIN can't be hacked; every 8th Indian has received one dose of vaccine: Govt
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