Relying on private, for-profit organisations for securing critical government infrastructure is like fighting a war with rented soldiers.” “Speaking on the opaque hiring process for data security, there is a lack of transparency in acquiring new cybersecurity talent for the government. India, on the other hand, still has a long way to go for refurbishing its sensitive webpages.” “Countries like the US put rewards on their military websites for better protecting internal secrets from getting divulged publicly. Lack of incentives or “bug bounties”, a common parlance among cybersecurity enthusiasts, on reporting vulnerabilities for government sites is thought out to be the most “uninspiring” of all the other reasons why nobody in the cyber field is up for working towards government data safety, as per him. India Today’s OSINT (Open-Source Intelligence) team spoke to cybersecurity expert Harshit Sengar for further understanding on the causes which have remained a constant hindrance in achieving the “cybersafe India” goal. What keeps us from “cybersafe India” goal? Similarly, CoWIN data has been hacked at several instances not through the main interface, but by exploiting third-party sites where its datasets were stored for varied purposes.Īlso, fake Aadhaar and PAN printing websites could be another thing that one needs to be wary of, which increasingly use customers’ info for cyber fraud. Making use of the same, the fraudsters would register numerous unique account numbers in their formed establishments from the unlinked Aadhaars.
Observation: Such fake shell entities have a history of misusing the Aadhaar data of individuals who had never linked it to their Employees’ Provident Fund (EPF) accounts. The data was allegedly stolen by the swindlers from PM Kisan, Rural employment scheme, and other schemes.
Illegitimate use of approximately 18,000 Aadhaar and PAN cards was uncovered by the tax authorities which led to a gradual springing of such fake shell entities. This ?30,000 crore GST evasion racket was found to be spread across 16 states nationwide, with seven persons arrested so far, in a two-month drive launched on May 16. Incident: In a new, nearly 4,000 shell companies with 16,000 fake GST registrations were detected misusing stolen identities of social security scheme beneficiaries. To name some, the portals for National Social Assistance Programme, National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) and Chandranna Bima Scheme by the government of Andhra Pradesh made into the news as information pores leaking PAN and Aadhaar credentials of millions. It only needs a basic google search for “Aadhaar scams” to unearth an unending chain of crimes, precisely of identity thefts, that were carried out using site datasets from various government schemes.
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