Personal data unsafe in Andhra Pradesh
6 years, 6 months ago

Personal data unsafe in Andhra Pradesh

Deccan Chronicle  

VIJAYAWADA: Personal data of those paying property tax, water bills and In the biggest data leak by the AP government, data security researchers are pointing out that details of lakhs of taxpayers including their Aadhaar numbers and phone numbers have been uploaded and are easily available on the emunicipal.ap.gov.in portal of the AP government. The AP government website had leaked Aadhaar numbers of around 11,000 government employees earlier. The endowments department had shut down the website after being alerted by security researchers as it inadvertently published Aadhaar numbers of 11,000 government employees. More worrying is the fact that the data of the municipal administration department is being stored on a third party server which means the data is vulnerable,” data security researcher Srinivas Kodali, who pointed out the data breach, told this newspaper.

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How safe is our personal health data with the Indian government? | In Focus podcast
1 year, 2 months ago

How safe is our personal health data with the Indian government? | In Focus podcast

The Hindu  

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The Hindu  

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Indians raise concerns over data compromises by govt and telcos: Report
1 year, 5 months ago

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India TV News  

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1 year, 6 months ago

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Deccan Chronicle  

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Explained | What does the alleged CoWIN data leak reveal?

The Hindu  

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Deccan Chronicle  

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Hindustan Times  

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India Today  

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Hindustan Times  

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2 years, 1 month ago

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The Hindu  

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The Hindu  

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2 years, 11 months ago

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Live Mint  

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3 years, 4 months ago

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Firstpost  

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3 years, 9 months ago

Probe if BJP used Aadhaar data for polls: HC to UIDAI

Hindustan Times  

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4 years, 1 month ago

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Deccan Chronicle  

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For a data firewall: The Hindu Editorial on need for a data protection law
4 years, 11 months ago

For a data firewall: The Hindu Editorial on need for a data protection law

The Hindu  

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5 years ago

Second-order effects of the Personal Data Protection Bill

The Hindu  

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IT Grids Aadhaar data leak: UIDAI’s implicit acknowledgement of a large-scale data breach will be very welcome to anti-Aadhaar activists
5 years, 9 months ago

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Firstpost  

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Aadhaar data leak: Details of 7.82 cr Indians from AP and Telangana found on IT Grids' database
5 years, 9 months ago

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Firstpost  

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Major Aadhaar data leak plugged: French security researcher
5 years, 9 months ago

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The Hindu  

The Indian cyber security machinery, in collaboration with a self-proclaimed anonymous French security researcher who has been vocal about data security through his Twitter account, claimed to have plugged a major data leak over the course of the last nine days. The researcher, who goes by the display name Elliot Alderson on Twitter, had on March 10 tweeted that two …

AP data theft: SIT claims IT Grids also has Telangana data in app
5 years, 10 months ago

AP data theft: SIT claims IT Grids also has Telangana data in app

Live Mint  

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AP data theft: Cyberabad police seek information from Amazon Web Services
5 years, 10 months ago

AP data theft: Cyberabad police seek information from Amazon Web Services

Live Mint  

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Andhra Pradesh government shared voter details with software firm, alleges KTR
5 years, 10 months ago

Andhra Pradesh government shared voter details with software firm, alleges KTR

Live Mint  

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Digital security company apologises for false report on ‘Aadhar data breach’
6 years, 2 months ago

Digital security company apologises for false report on ‘Aadhar data breach’

Op India  

Cybersecurity giant Gemalto has issued an apology to UIDAI, the authoritative body for India’s Aadhar identity database. Gemalto’s apology comes after it published its 2018 breach level index report wherein the company had claimed that of the 4.5 billion records globally that were compromised in the first half of 2018, over 1 billion were due to a massive ‘data breach’ …

Personal Data Protection Bill: Right step, but fighting fraud will be a tight rope walk for most companies
6 years, 5 months ago

Personal Data Protection Bill: Right step, but fighting fraud will be a tight rope walk for most companies

Firstpost  

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TRAI chief discloses his Aadhaar number, challenges ‘hackers’ to show what harm can they do
6 years, 5 months ago

TRAI chief discloses his Aadhaar number, challenges ‘hackers’ to show what harm can they do

Op India  

RS Sharma, the chairman of the Telecom Regulatory authority of India has done something that has silenced Aadhar haters and made them come up with lame, laughable excuses that hold no ground. It began with an article in leftist propaganda website ‘The Print’ titled ‘What harm can you do to me if you have my Aadhar details, asks TRAI chairman …

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