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State government fixes bug exposing Aadhaar biometric records
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Fingerprint biometrics submitted to India’s national ID system, Aadhaar, have been exposed by the West Bengal state government website, TechCrunch reports.
Security researcher Sourajeet Majumder found and reported a bug that exposed Aadhaar digital ID numbers, identity documents, photographs and images of fingerprints on the e-District web portal. Soon after he reported the bug to government cybersecurity body CERT-In and the West Bengal government, it was fixed, according to the report.
The bug allowed a prospective attacker to guess sequences …
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