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A new data leak hits Aadhaar, India's national ID database

by webartisan on 3/26/18, 2:28 PM with 1 comments

  • by webartisan on 3/26/18, 2:32 PM

    TLDR; A gas supply utility, Indane, provided an un -authenticated, non-rate limited API proxy to the authenticated Aadhar API, allowing anyone to make more than a thousand requests a minute to fetch personal information, by just iterating through the Aadhar numbers.