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Indian govt’s insistence that Aadhaar is secure rings hollow in wake of breaches

Posted on October 24, 2023 by Dissent

Joel R. McConvey reports:

India is bleeding biometric information, with new data breaches giving credence to a recent report by the credit rating agency Moody’s warning that Aadhaar’s centralized biometric digital ID system has privacy and security vulnerabilities.

A piece in Security Affairs reports that earlier this month, the cybersecurity firm Resecurity found hundreds of millions of records containing personally identifiable information (PII) for sale on the dark web. Aadhaar cards were among the data on offer.

Read more at Biometric Update.

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