NEW DELHI: Retirement fund body EPFO on Wednesday mentioned it has discontinued services equipped through Common Service Centre "pending vulnerability checks" and dominated out any leakage of subscribers' information from a central authority website online.
EPFO's statement comes towards the backdrop of reports suggesting theft of information of subscribers by hackers from 'aadhaar.epfoservices.com', a website online operated by Common Service Centre (CSC) that comes below the Ministry of Electronics and IT.
The reports have been according to a letter by EPFO Central Provident Fund Commissioner V P Joy to CEO of CSC, Dinesh Tyagi.
"Warnings regarding vulnerabilities in data or software is a routine administrative process based on which the services which were rendered through CSC have been discontinued from March 22, 2018," mentioned an EPFO statement issued after the report went viral.
It mentioned the report is related to the services through CSC and not about EPFO instrument or information centre.
"No confirmed data leakage has been established or observed so far. As part of the data security and protection, EPFO has taken advance action by closing the server and host service through CSC pending vulnerability checks," EPFO mentioned.
It mentioned there is nothing to be inquisitive about and EPFO has been taking all vital measures to make certain that no information leakage takes place and can proceed to be vigilant about it one day.
The retirement fund body has been seeding Aadhaar with Universal Account (PF)Numbers of its subscribers to toughen supply of services. It has planned to go paperless by August this year. Thus, all its services can be equipped online also.
When contacted, a senior IT ministry authentic mentioned that as a vulnerability has been identified, the ministry will take motion to plug the gaps, in case they exist.
"We will have it looked at. A vulnerability has been pointed out, and so we will (undertake) the exercise to plug the vulnerability, if it is there," mentioned the authentic who did not want to be named.
EPFO's statement comes towards the backdrop of reports suggesting theft of information of subscribers by hackers from 'aadhaar.epfoservices.com', a website online operated by Common Service Centre (CSC) that comes below the Ministry of Electronics and IT.
The reports have been according to a letter by EPFO Central Provident Fund Commissioner V P Joy to CEO of CSC, Dinesh Tyagi.
"Warnings regarding vulnerabilities in data or software is a routine administrative process based on which the services which were rendered through CSC have been discontinued from March 22, 2018," mentioned an EPFO statement issued after the report went viral.
It mentioned the report is related to the services through CSC and not about EPFO instrument or information centre.
"No confirmed data leakage has been established or observed so far. As part of the data security and protection, EPFO has taken advance action by closing the server and host service through CSC pending vulnerability checks," EPFO mentioned.
It mentioned there is nothing to be inquisitive about and EPFO has been taking all vital measures to make certain that no information leakage takes place and can proceed to be vigilant about it one day.
The retirement fund body has been seeding Aadhaar with Universal Account (PF)Numbers of its subscribers to toughen supply of services. It has planned to go paperless by August this year. Thus, all its services can be equipped online also.
When contacted, a senior IT ministry authentic mentioned that as a vulnerability has been identified, the ministry will take motion to plug the gaps, in case they exist.
"We will have it looked at. A vulnerability has been pointed out, and so we will (undertake) the exercise to plug the vulnerability, if it is there," mentioned the authentic who did not want to be named.
EPFO discontinues services with Aadhaar seeding portal amid reports of data theft
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