Big news on the Aadhaar and Passport data leak! Details of the Aadhaar and Passport-related data breach are known.

 Big news on the Aadhaar and Passport data leak! Details of the Aadhaar and Passport-related data breach are known

According to an American company, 81.5 crore Indians' Aadhaar and passport-related data have been exposed on the dark web and are allegedly being attempted to be sold.

Aadhaar Data Leak: A significant instance of Aadhaar data leakage has surfaced on the dark web. A report published in Business Standard alleges that 81.5 crore Indians' passport and Aadhaar-related data have been exposed on the dark web by the American firm Resecurity. According to the investigation, there was an effort made to sell personal data online, including name, phone number, address, Aadhaar, and passport.

The American company said that on October 9, a user going by the handle "pwn0001" made a message on the breach forum. He attempted to sell it by providing information on the 81.5 crore Indians' passport and Aadhaar details. The individual had offered to sell the Aadhaar and passport-related data for $80,000, according to the security report.

Media sources suggest that the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) may be the source of the latest data leak. According to Business Standard, ICMR has not yet responded to this. According to reports, the CBI is looking into the data breach that pwn0001 found.

The largest data dump in India, according to hackers on X, involves the personal information of almost 80 crore Indians. Name, father's name, phone number, passport number, Aadhaar number, and age are among the details found in the compromised data. However, the government has not yet responded to this problem of data leaks.

In a similar vein, Lucius, another individual, made an offer to sell 1.8 gigabytes of data on the breach forum back in August. The Comptroller and Auditor General looked into UIDAI and discovered that the body did not adequately oversee its client suppliers' compliance with regulations or safeguard the security of its data vaults, according to a Brookings research published in April 2022.

Notably, an instance of data breach had already surfaced before to this. The government opened a probe in June when it was said that a Telegram chat channel had disclosed the personal information of vaccinated residents, including VVIPs, from the CoWin website.