130 Millions Aadhar Data Due to Poor Security in Websites.

Around 130 million Aadhaar numbers sensitive data meant to remain private have been out in the public domain for last few months. Deliberate revelation of Aadhaar can lay people open to financial fraud and it is a punishable offence. But here, the culprit was poor security protocols of websites belonging to the Centre's rural development ministry and the state government of Andhra Pradesh, reported the Centre of Internet & Society(CIS), a non-profit research organisation.

While a number of data leaks have been reported recently, this is the first time a data leak on this scale has been documented. Since the report was published, three of the four websites have masked or removed the data.

The CIS Report noted that the leak is from four portals that deal with National Social Assistance Programme, National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, Chandranna Bima Scheme and Daily Online Payment Reports of NREGA.

This is not the first time, There have been leaks into the Aadhaar system although this is probably the first time someone has documented the whole bit so meticulously. There have been reports of data leaks in the past. In fact, as more and more government schemes and ID cards gets linked with Aadhaar data the instances of leaks have increased significantly.