A shocking report of the data breach appeared on Monday which claims that the personal information of Indian citizens, including their Aadhaar card, and PAN card details are available on messaging platform Telegram.
According to a report by Malayala Manorama, the data leak happened because of the CoWIN portal–Covid vaccination portal in which people registered their personal details.
The report said that when a mobile number registered with the CoWIN portal is entered, the Telegram bot discloses the number of the ID card used for vaccination along with gender, birth year, and name of the vaccination centre, and his/her doses. With this massive data breach, the Aadhaar card, voter ID, and PAN card numbers of Indian citizens are accessible to anyone on Telegram.