The Health Ministry on Monday said reports of data breach of beneficiaries who received COVID vaccination are “without any basis and mischievous in nature.” It said the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) had been asked to investigate the issue and submit a report. The CoWIN (Covid Vaccine Intelligence Network) portal is completely safe with adequate safeguards for data privacy, the Ministry maintained.
“It does not appear that CoWIN app or database has been directly breached,” tweeted Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Union Minister of State for Electronics, and Information Technology, clarifying that data being accessed by the bot from a threat actor database seems to have been populated with previously breached/stolen data. The database, he said, was other than CoWIN.
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