After Aadhaar Leak, Hacker Deposits Rs 1 In TRAI Chairman's Account To Improve System's Privacy
TRAI chairman RS Sharma published his Aadhaar number online on Saturday. In less than a day ethical hackers went onto use that number to post 14 pieces of personal information linked to the TRAI chairman.
We all know how our Aadhaar data is safe and secure behind a 13 feet high, 5 feet thick wall, right?
That's probably what prompted TRAI chairman RS Sharma to publish his Aadhaar number online on Saturday, challenging anyone to do any harm to him.
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What followed next is equal part shocking and embarrassing. In less than a day, ethical hackers went onto use that Aadhaar number to post 14 pieces of personal information linked to the TRAI chairman RS Sharma.
On Sunday, a bunch of "ethical hackers" were able to extract Sharma's mobile numbers, residential address, date of birth and PAN number. Not just that but also his voter ID number, telecom operator, phone model were made public on Twitter.
One Twitter user even managed to find out RS Sharma's Air India frequent flyer ID -- based on all the private information revealed after his "Aadhaar Challenge".
My donation to @rssharma3 's aadhaar via BHIM to build Govt systems with better engineering to protect user privacy.
¡ª 4||1V4r (@anivar) July 28, 2018
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Not just that, Twitter user Anivar Aravind (along with a few others) even manage to sent Re 1 to RS Sharma's bank account via electronic bank transfer. This is after some of the hackers claimed to access to Sharma's bank account number and IFSC code for several banks.
The ethical hacker claimed to send Mr Sharma the princely sum of Re 1 in the hope the Aadhaar system implemented "better engineering to protect user privacy."
