In a major data breach, personal details of those who registered on the CoWIN portal to get their coronavirus vaccines has allegedly leaked on messaging platform Telegram, reported The News Minute on Monday.
A bot on a Telegram group was providing details like names, date of birth, phone number.
As well as passport or Aadhar number of individuals who registered for vaccinations on the government-run CoWIN portal.
The breach was first reported by The Fourth, a Malayalam news portal. They accessed details of Kerala Health Minister Veena George.
CoWIN high power panel Chairperson Ram Sewak Sharma, Congress General Secretary KC Venugopal and Union Minister Meenakhi Lekhi.
More than 110 crore persons have registered on the CoWIN app.
The data breach hasconfirmed by The News Minute, which got access to details of Lok Sabha MP Kanimozhi Karunanidhi.
Telangana minister Kalvakuntla Taraka Rama Rao, Former Union minister Harsh Vardhan, Bharatiya Janata Party Tamil Nadu chief K Annamalai and Congress MP Karti Chidambaram through the bot on the Telegram group.
All of them expect Vardhan confirmed the veracity of the details the news portal got from the bot.