Cyber startup says Tamil Nadu’s PDS data breached

Bengaluru-based cyber safety startup Technisanct has stated that Tamil Nadu’s public distribution system data has been breached. The data, together with Aadhaar card numbers, addresses and cellular numbers, belonging to over 5.2 million shoppers, have been lifted from their very own server, stated Nandakishore Harikumar, founder, Technisanct.

Data belonging to five.2 million customers, which incorporates 49,19,668 Aadhaar numbers, was uploaded on a well-liked hackers’ discussion board on June 28. It was additionally recognized that tnpds.gov.in was a sufferer of a cyber assault and was hacked by a cyber felony group that goes by the title 1945VN.

The data breach was reported to the pc emergency response staff (CERT) by Technisanct. “Our team is further assessing the depth of the breach with special emphasis on the number of Aadhaar records publicly exposed as it is crucial to protect data belonging to citizens. We also assume that the vendor will be having more data from the same breach,” Mr. Harikumar stated. Such data can be utilized for phishing or to create faux identification playing cards, he added.

However, Food and Consumer Affairs Department officers stated the Chennai-based firm that manages their web site had denied the hacking.

In an explanatory letter, the corporate knowledgeable the Department that the appliance was designed in a number of layers and solely the consumer interface, notably index.html-home web page, had been impacted, and there had been no data breach within the system. The firm additionally stated it didn’t retailer beneficiaries’ fingerprints within the utility, and authentication occurred on the UIDAI web site.

Food Department officers stated they’d undertake a safety audit shortly.