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An Indian DoS government has determine security issues touch its website that exposed the sensitive documents and personal info of trillion of residents .
The bugs existed on the Rajasthan government internet site relate to Jan Aadhaar , a State Department programme to provide a individual identifier to families and individuals in the Department of State to access wellbeing schemes . The microbe expose the copies of Aadhaar cards , birth and marriage certificate , electricity bills and income command related to registrant , as well as personal information such as their date of parturition , gender and father ’s name .
Security research worker Viktor Markopoulos , working for cybersecurity company CloudDefense.ai , receive the bug in the Jan Aadhaar portal in December and asked TechCrunch for help in disclose to the authorities .
The bug were pay back last workweek through an intervention by the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team , or CERT - In .
One of the hemipteron allow anyone to get at personal text file and information with knowledge of a registrant ’s earpiece number .
The other bug allowed the restitution of raw data because the server was not properly delay the validity of one - sentence password , the research worker explained .
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“ This is to inform you that we have received a reply from the concerned authority that the reported vulnerability has been set up , ” the agency told TechCrunch . The investigator also confirmed the reparation .
TechCrunch attain out again to the Rajasthan political science for comment ahead of publication , but we have not hear back .
Indian United States Department of State governance locating website hemipteran that divulge Aadhaar number and fingerprint
