IT Grids ‘stole’ 7.82 cr Aadhaar records

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Hyderabad: IT Grids (India) Private Limited, which is embroiled in the data theft controversy, is said to have accessed a whopping 7.82 crore records from Aadhaar data of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh for the purpose of Telugu Desam Party’s Seva Mitra app.

In a complaint filed with the Madhapur police on Friday, Aadhaar Deputy Director T Bhavani Prasad said the database structure and size was surprisingly similar to that of databases that could have been originally owned by Unique Identification Authority of India.

 

Prasad had received a communication from the Special Investigation Team (SIT), which is probing the data theft case, on March 15 informing that the Seva Mitra app was suspected to be using stolen voter information along with Aadhaar data of the State governments of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh for voter profiling.

The information was also used for targeted campaigning and even for deletion of votes. During the course of investigation, a search was conducted on the premises of the IT Grids Company in Madhapur resulting in seizure of seven hard disks and other digital evidence.

Huge quantum of data

The seized digital evidence was sent to the Telangana State Forensic Science Laboratory (TSFSL) for forensic examination. The TSFSL, in its preliminary report, has stated that the ‘data related is huge in material objects and requires extensive analysis’.

Moreover, the report of TSFSL has categorically stated that the hard disks contained a database of a large number of records pertaining to Aadhaar number in a particular structural database. Strengthening the suspicion on further examination of the digital evidence, it was discovered that a whopping 7,82,21,397 records of Aadhaar data of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh was used by IT Grids Company for TDP’s Seva Mitra Application.

The seized hard disks had the fields of – UID_NUM, EID_NUM, CITIZEN_NAME, FATHER_HUSBAND_ GUARDIAN_ NAME, DOB_DT, VILLAGE NAME, MANDAL NAME, DISTRICT_ID, DISTRICT NAME, PIN CODE, VTC_CODE, VTC_NAME, CITIZEN_ PHONE NO, GENDER, STATECODE, STATENAME, CITIZEN_ NAME_ LOCAL, CAREOF_NAME_ Local.

The presence of HID_NUM raises a strong suspicion that the data could have been obtained either from Central Identities Data Repository (CIDR) or one of the State Resident Data Hubs (SRDH) aligned to CIDR.

Availability of such unique information of an Aadhaar number indicates that the suspects in the case might have illegally accessed CIDR or SRDH and has used such information or data for wrongful gain.

Illegal possession

The suspect being in possession of such a sensitive database in a removable storage is in contravention of Section 38(g), Section 38(h) of Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and Other Subsidies, Benefits and Services) Act, 2016.

The SIT is probing the data theft case based on a complaint lodged by one Lokeswara Reddy who alleged illegal access and fraudulent use of sensitive identity information such as Aadhaar number and voter identity details, including colour photographs along with other information.

The same information was misused by IT Grids Company through Seva Mitra app, Reddy said based on whose complaint a case was registered on March 2, 2019 and the same is now being investigated by the Special Investigation Team (SIT).

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