By- Srishti Verma
It is claimed that sensitive data belonging to 81.5 crore Indians has appeared on the dark web, indicating a major data breach.
A thorough report regarding the attack has been made public by Resecurity, a US-based cybersecurity agency.
The agency claims that on October 9, information about the intrusion was posted on intrusion Forums by a hacker going by the username "pwn0001."
They declared that 81.5 crore, or 815 million records, were available.
The government has not yet provided official confirmation of the data leak.
Millions of personally identifiable information (PII) records, including Aadhaar cards, belonging to Indian citizens were found to be for sale on the Dark Web by Resecurity's HUNTER (HUMINT) team.
The data set offered by pwn0001 includes the following information: Name, Fathers Name, Phone Number, Other Number, Passport Number, Aadhar Number, Age, Gender, Address, District, Pincode, State
The hacker pwn0001 displayed certain spreadsheets. As evidence, these spreadsheets included fragments of Aadhaar data. One of these data sets contained information on one million Indian citizens.