How safe is your Aadhaar data?
Chennai :The state governments vested with the role of collecting personal details from public for Aadhaar purpose had failed to understand the seriousness of data leak and most of the outsourced portals and websites that deal with Aadhaar, lack adequate cyber security measures, making Aadhaar data vulnerable for the data breach, opines J. Prasanna, cyber security expert, cyber security and foundation Pte Ltd. Elliot Alderson kicked up a storm across the country when he leaked details of close to 20,000 Aadhaar cards on the Internet and shared samples of fingerprint data on his handle. Identify and go behind all the third party service providers and state governments to fix vulnerabilities on cyber security front. Also, any portal that works with UIDAI should be subjected to cyber security vulnerability assessment to find the vulnerability before they can actually allow them to connect to their system.
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