India’s Biggest Data Leak! Aadhaar data of 81.5 Cr Indians leaked on dark web, claims report

According to the report, data including name, phone number, address, Aadhaar, passport information is available for sale online.

The biggest data leak so far has come to light in the country. The data of 81.5 crore Indians available with the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has been leaked. According to a report by US-based cybersecurity firm Resecurity, personally identifiable information of about 815 million i.e. 81.5 crore Indians has been leaked on the dark web.

According to the report, data including name, phone number, address, Aadhaar, passport information is available for sale online. “On October 9, a thread actor identified as ‘pwn0001’ posted a thread on the breach forum showing access to 815 million ‘Indian Citizen Aadhaar and Passport’ records,” Resecurity wrote in a blogpost.

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The company also said that investigators from its HUMINT unit, who contacted the thread actor, learned that they were willing to sell the entire Aadhaar and Indian passport database for $80,000. ICMR is aware of this data leak.

Sources confirmed to News18 that the epicentre of leakage has not been identified as parts of the Covid-19 test data go to the National Informatics Centre (NIC), ICMR and Ministry of Health.