165 data breaches of Indians reported since 2018, says Centre
No breach of Aadhaar data has occurred from the Central Identities Data Repository maintained by the UIDAI, the government claimed.

There have been 165 data breaches of Indian citizens between January 2018 and October 2023, the Centre has told the Rajya Sabha.
Union Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar presented the data on December 8 in response to a question by Trinamool Congress MP Saket Gokhale.
“As per the information reported to and tracked by Indian Computer Emergency Response Team [CERT-In], a total of 165 data breach incidents involving citizen data are observed from January 2018 till October 2023,” the minister told the House.
Chandrasekhar claimed that no breach of Aadhaar data has occurred from the Central Identities Data Repository maintained by the Unique Identification Authority of India.
However, in January 2018, The Tribune claimed to have “purchased” a “service being offered by anonymous sellers over WhatsApp” for “unrestricted access” to details of the more than one billion Aadhaar holders.
The Unique Identification Authority of India, which manages the Centre’s Aadhaar system, had insisted that there had not been any Aadhaar data breach, and the “information is fully safe and secure”.
Chandrasekhar also said that the government has taken several measures to ensure the safety of data on the government-run CoWIN platform, which holds information linked to more than 110 crore persons who got Covid-19 vaccinations in India. He said that the...