{"id":7280,"date":"2017-05-02T08:18:08","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T15:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/?p=7280"},"modified":"2019-04-20T16:24:12","modified_gmt":"2019-04-20T16:24:12","slug":"1m-aadhaar-numbers-published-on-indias-jharkhand-govt-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/?p=7280","title":{"rendered":"1M+ Aadhaar numbers published on India&#039;s Jharkhand govt website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[\n\n<p>In India, the Aadhaar is a paperless online anytime-anywhere identity assigned to an Indian citizen to cover his\/her entire lifetime. The verification of his identity is uses authentication devices which connect to the Unique Identification Authority of India&#39;s (UIDAI&rsquo;s) Central Identity Repository. &nbsp;The Repository responds with&nbsp;only a &lsquo;yes&rsquo; or &lsquo;no&rsquo; response to the basic query-&ldquo;Is the person who he\/she claims to be?&rdquo; based on the data available with UIDAI. &nbsp; An Aadhaar Card or e-Aadhaar (electronic copy of Aadhaar) are provided to each enrolled citizen. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freepressjournal.in\/india\/massive-aadhaar-data-breach-sensitive-information-of-130-million-card-holders-leaked\/1061236\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Free Press Journal in India<\/a>, Aadhaar card holders have had their data exploited to the public domain since November. &nbsp;Aadhaar data can be used to exploit many things such as post office accounts, rural employment and pension details, and banking information. &nbsp;It is estimated that there are more than 1.4 million pensioners who are affected. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>According to Section 29 (4) of the Aadhaar Act, publishing Aadhar numbers of consumers is illegal and Hindustan Times <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/india-news\/in-massive-data-breach-over-a-million-aadhaar-numbers-published-on-jharkhand-govt-website\/story-EeFlScg5Dn5neLyBzrkw1I.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reports<\/a> that the Aadhar numbers were compromised by a programming glitch on the Jharkhand Directorate of Social Security website. &nbsp;The data exposed includes the names, addresses, Aadhaar numbers and bank account info of beneficiaries of Jharkhand&rsquo;s old age pension scheme.<\/p>\n\n\n]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"amazonpipp_noncename":"","amazon-product-isactive":"1","amazon-product-single-asin":"0071074406","amazon-product-content-location":"3","amazon-product-content-hook-override":"2","amazon-product-excerpt-hook-override":"3","amazon-product-singular-only":"","amazon-product-amazon-desc":"","amazon-product-show-gallery":"","amazon-product-show-features":"","amazon-product-newwindow":"2","amazon-product-show-list-price":"","amazon-product-show-used-price":"","amazon-product-show-saved-amt":"","amazon-product-timestamp":"","amazon-product-new-title":"","amazon-product-use-cartURL":"","amazon_featured_post_meta_key":"","_amazon_featured_alt":"","amazon-product-template":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7865,"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7280\/revisions\/7865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}