HYDERABAD: The Cyberabad police has filed an FIR on the grievance of Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) pointing out that data era firm IT Grids (India) was once in possession of Aadhaar information of over 7.8 crore citizens of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. The population of the two states is approximately 8.four crore. The corporate was once using the data to broaden TDP’s Seva Mitra app.
According to the FIR, the data was once in a removable storage software in violation of the Aadhaar Act. Forensic experts suspect the firm will have illegally got the data both from a central information repository or a state information hub. Sources stated that this example too may well be transferred to important investigation team (SIT), probing cases associated with the alleged information theft.
TDP has stated that they didn't have get right of entry to to uncooked Aadhaar information and that it was once only getting used to verify beneficiaries of welfare schemes.
No TDP leader was once available for remark on the Telangana law enforcement officials’ FIR.
During analysis of hard disks recovered earlier by the Telangana police from the IT Grids place of job, Telangana State Forensic Science Laboratory (TSFSL) experts say they discovered that the firm was once in possession of 7,82,21,397 records of Aadhaar information belonging to Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. In the forensic analysis, the officers discovered the construction and dimension of the database in possession of IT Grids was once very similar to the only owned by UIDAI.
Based on the data given by the SIT, UIDAI on Friday lodged a grievance with the Madhapur police, who registered a case under quite a lot of sections of the Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and Other Subsidies, Benefits and Services) Act, 2016.
‘Seva Mitra could also be using stolen information’
The investigation thus far revealed that Seva Mitra app is suspected to be using stolen voter data along side Aadhaar information of the state governments of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh for voter profiling, targeted campaigning and even deletion of votes. During the course of investigation, search was once carried out on the premises of IT Grids and 7 hard disks and different digital proof had been seized from the scene of offence,’’ UIDAI deputy director T Bhavani Prasad stated in his grievance.
When the units had been despatched to TSFSL for examination, they in turn gave a preliminary report back to SIT informing that the units contain huge amount of data and require extensive analysis.
“TSFSL has categorically said that the seized hard disks contain a database of a lot of records concerning Aadhaar quantity in a specific structural database. Strengthening the suspicion, upon additional examination of the digital proof, it was once found out that a whopping 7,82,21,397 records of Aadhaar information belonging to both states had been discovered and used by IT Grids (India),’’ Bhavani Prasad stated within the grievance.
According to the FIR, the data was once in a removable storage software in violation of the Aadhaar Act. Forensic experts suspect the firm will have illegally got the data both from a central information repository or a state information hub. Sources stated that this example too may well be transferred to important investigation team (SIT), probing cases associated with the alleged information theft.
TDP has stated that they didn't have get right of entry to to uncooked Aadhaar information and that it was once only getting used to verify beneficiaries of welfare schemes.
No TDP leader was once available for remark on the Telangana law enforcement officials’ FIR.
During analysis of hard disks recovered earlier by the Telangana police from the IT Grids place of job, Telangana State Forensic Science Laboratory (TSFSL) experts say they discovered that the firm was once in possession of 7,82,21,397 records of Aadhaar information belonging to Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. In the forensic analysis, the officers discovered the construction and dimension of the database in possession of IT Grids was once very similar to the only owned by UIDAI.
Based on the data given by the SIT, UIDAI on Friday lodged a grievance with the Madhapur police, who registered a case under quite a lot of sections of the Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and Other Subsidies, Benefits and Services) Act, 2016.
‘Seva Mitra could also be using stolen information’
The investigation thus far revealed that Seva Mitra app is suspected to be using stolen voter data along side Aadhaar information of the state governments of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh for voter profiling, targeted campaigning and even deletion of votes. During the course of investigation, search was once carried out on the premises of IT Grids and 7 hard disks and different digital proof had been seized from the scene of offence,’’ UIDAI deputy director T Bhavani Prasad stated in his grievance.
When the units had been despatched to TSFSL for examination, they in turn gave a preliminary report back to SIT informing that the units contain huge amount of data and require extensive analysis.
“TSFSL has categorically said that the seized hard disks contain a database of a lot of records concerning Aadhaar quantity in a specific structural database. Strengthening the suspicion, upon additional examination of the digital proof, it was once found out that a whopping 7,82,21,397 records of Aadhaar information belonging to both states had been discovered and used by IT Grids (India),’’ Bhavani Prasad stated within the grievance.
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