Rumored breach of India’s vaccination data portal threatens to undermine DPI influence

Reports are swirling that India’s public vaccination portal, CoWIN, has suffered a breach of huge volumes of personal information, including Aadhaar numbers.

The government denies that a breach has occurred, calling the reports “without any basis and mischievous in nature.”

“Only OTP authentication-based access to data is provided. All steps have been taken and are being taken to ensure the security of the data in the CoWIN portal,” an official statement from the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (MoHFW) …

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