What Has the Centre Said?
The Centre took to Twitter via the official handle of Aarogya Setu to say that “out of abundant precaution, emergency response team of Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology is investigating the matter.”
It pointed out that the data speculated to have been leaked, such as geo-location of beneficiaries, is not even collected on Co-WIN.
“All data on COWIN is stored in a secure digital environment and is not shared with anyone outside of it,” the Centre said.
RS Sharma, who heads the Co-WIN portal, said that CoWIN “stores all the vaccination data in a safe and secure digital environment.”
“Our attention has been drawn towards the news circulating on social media about the alleged hacking of CoWIN system. In this connection, we wish to state that Co-WIN stores all the vaccination data in a safe and secure digital environment. No Co-WIN data is shared with any entity outside the CoWIN environment. The data being claimed as having been…