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UIDAI’s Aadhaar Software Hacked, ID Database Compromised, Experts Confirm

Skilled hackers disabled security features of Aadhaar enrolment software, circulated hack on Whatsapp.

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Aadhaar Software Reportedly Hacked, Database Said to Be Compromised; UIDAI Responds

Aadhaar data security - a hot topic since the introduction of the framework back in 2009 - is once again in the news. A three-month-long investigation claims to ...

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UIDAI’s Aadhaar Software Hacked, ID Database Compromised, Experts Confirm | HuffPost Tech

26 September 2018 - ALSO READ: This Uzbek National Was Arrested Last Year With An Aadhaar Card Believed To Be Forged. It's Still Valid On The UIDAI Website · This decision to install the software on each enrolment computer, said cyber security expert Björksten, "puts the running of critical components of Aadhaar in the hands of the enemies of the system".

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Aadhaar Software Hacked, Database Compromised: Congress | Outlook India

"The hack of the Aadhaar enrolment software jeopardizes the sanctity of the Aadhaar database. We hope the authorities will take the appropriate moves to secure future enrolments and verify the suspect enrolments," the Congress said in a tweet. French security expert Elliot Alderson -- who had last month sparked a controversy by asking the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) to explain why its helpline number was stored on many people's phone without their knowledge -- also joined in the conversation asking the UIDAI to work with the hackers to plug the breach.

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Security in UIDAI system - Unique Identification Authority of India | Government of India

2 weeks ago - There will also be penal consequences for unauthorised access to CIDR – including hacking, and penalties for tampering with data in the CIDR. Convergence and linking of UIDAI information to other databases The UID database is not linked to any other databases, or to information held in other databases. Its only purpose will be to verify a person’s identity at the point of receiving a service, and that too with the consent of the aadhaar number holder.

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Aadhaar Data Breach: What Happened, Impact, and Lessons | Huntress

31 October 2025 - The breach was a result of compromised access credentials. It appears that an anonymous group operating a WhatsApp group was providing "agent" access to the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) database.

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UIDAI Aadhaar software hacked using a patch that disabled critical security: Report – Firstpost

11 September 2018 - Sharma still maintains that no harm was caused to him, but UIDAI later released a statement asking the general public to **avoid sharing their Aadhaar number online.** In each of the case where Aadhaar database was compromised, the standard response from the UIDAI has been that **Aadhaar database is secure** as the biometric data isn’t hacked.

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Aadhaar Data Breach Largest in the World, Says WEF’s Global Risk Report and Avast

According to Avast, between August 2017 and January 2018, Aadhaar numbers, names, email and physical addresses, phone numbers, and photos of almost 1.1 billion Indians were found susceptible to data breach.

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UIDAI’s Aadhaar Software Hacked - Hackers Disabled Security Features & Compromise the Database

5 September 2024 - Based on the Experts point of view, the patch who is created by the individual or a cybercrime group had a highly motivated to compromise the entire Aadhaar Database. Anandh, A security expert from India who also analyzed the software said, the patch was assembled by grafting code from older versions of the Aadhaar enrolment software—which had fewer security features— on to newer versions of the software. His findings also confirmed by Dan Wallach, Professor of Computer Science, and Electrical and Computer Engineering, at Rice University in Houston, Texas.

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UIDAI dismisses Aadhaar software hack report as ‘irresponsible’ and ‘baseless’ | India News - The Indian Express

11 September 2018 - The response from UIDAI comes hours ... that the authenticity of the data stored in Aadhaar identity database has been compromised by a software patch that disables critical security features of the software used to enrol new Aadhaar users...

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