<p>Personal data of thousands of people in India has been leaked from a government server which includes their name, mobile number, address and Covid test result, and these information can be accessed through online search.</p>.<p>The leaked data has been put on sale on Raid Forums website where a cyber criminal claims to have personal data of over 20,000 people.</p>.<p>The data put on Raid Forums shows name, age, gender, mobile number, address, date and result of Covid-19 report of these people. </p>.<p>Cyber Security researcher Rajshekhar Rajaharia also tweeted that personally identifiable information (PII) including name and Covid-19 results are made public through a content delivery network (CDN).</p>.<p>He said that Google has indexed lakhs of data from the affected system.</p>.<p>"PII including Name, MOB, PAN, Address etc of #Covid19 #RTPCR results & #Cowin data getting public through a Govt CDN. #Google indexed almost 9 Lac public/private #GovtDocuments in search engines. Patient's data is now listed on #DarkWeb. Need fast deindex," Rajaharia said in his tweet.</p>.<p>An email query sent to the Ministry of Electronics and IT did not elicit any reply.</p>.<p>The sample document shared on Raid Forums shows that the leaked data was meant for upload on Co-WIN portal.</p>.<p>The government has heavily relied on digital technologies in terms of controlling and creating awareness about the Covid-19 pandemic as also its vaccination programme. Several government departments mandate people to use Aarogya Setu app for Covid-19 related services and information.</p>.<p>Rajaharia in a follow-up tweet on January 20 said that he is not reporting any vulnerability in this incidence but cautioning people to remain alert from fraud calls, offers related to Covid-19, etc that they may get as their data is being sold in the dark web.</p>.<p>Data sold in the dark web is often exploited by cyber criminals and fraudsters for various kind of frauds.</p>.<p><strong>Check out latest DH videos here</strong></p>
<p>Personal data of thousands of people in India has been leaked from a government server which includes their name, mobile number, address and Covid test result, and these information can be accessed through online search.</p>.<p>The leaked data has been put on sale on Raid Forums website where a cyber criminal claims to have personal data of over 20,000 people.</p>.<p>The data put on Raid Forums shows name, age, gender, mobile number, address, date and result of Covid-19 report of these people. </p>.<p>Cyber Security researcher Rajshekhar Rajaharia also tweeted that personally identifiable information (PII) including name and Covid-19 results are made public through a content delivery network (CDN).</p>.<p>He said that Google has indexed lakhs of data from the affected system.</p>.<p>"PII including Name, MOB, PAN, Address etc of #Covid19 #RTPCR results & #Cowin data getting public through a Govt CDN. #Google indexed almost 9 Lac public/private #GovtDocuments in search engines. Patient's data is now listed on #DarkWeb. Need fast deindex," Rajaharia said in his tweet.</p>.<p>An email query sent to the Ministry of Electronics and IT did not elicit any reply.</p>.<p>The sample document shared on Raid Forums shows that the leaked data was meant for upload on Co-WIN portal.</p>.<p>The government has heavily relied on digital technologies in terms of controlling and creating awareness about the Covid-19 pandemic as also its vaccination programme. Several government departments mandate people to use Aarogya Setu app for Covid-19 related services and information.</p>.<p>Rajaharia in a follow-up tweet on January 20 said that he is not reporting any vulnerability in this incidence but cautioning people to remain alert from fraud calls, offers related to Covid-19, etc that they may get as their data is being sold in the dark web.</p>.<p>Data sold in the dark web is often exploited by cyber criminals and fraudsters for various kind of frauds.</p>.<p><strong>Check out latest DH videos here</strong></p>