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CloudSEK report says hackers don’t have access to CoWin’s backend database

Posted on June 13, 2023 by Dissent

Ayushman Kuman reports:

A day after a Telegram bot provided access to the personal information of individuals who had reportedly registered for vaccination through the government’s CoWIN portal, an independent analysis by CloudSEK has shown that the threat actors do not have access to the entire portal or the backend database.

CloudSEK is a Singapore-based contextual AI company that claims it can forewarn cyber threats.

“Based on the matching fields from the Telegram data and previously reported incidents affecting health workers of a region, we assume the information was scraped through these compromised credentials,” CloudSEK said in a report.

Read more at MoneyControl.

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