New Delhi, June 11: Amid COVID-19 pandemic several fake news are doing rounds on various platforms of social media spreading misinformation to create panic among the masses.
Dark Tracer, an autonomous cyber defence platform, also post a screenshot of the Data Leak Market website, which claimed that it had information of 150 million COVID-19 vaccinated people of India with their name, mobile number, aadhaar ID, GPS location, state etc.
The government said that prima facie, these reports appear to be fake and that the portal stores all the vaccination data in a safe and secure digital environment.
The Computer Emergency Response Team of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology , clarified that “our attention has been drawn towards the news circulating on social media about the alleged hacking of the CoWIN system.
The news surfaced on social media about data leak after a hacker group that goes by the name of “Dark Leak Market” claimed via a tweet that it has the database of about 15 crore Indians who have registered themselves on the CoWIN portal, and it is reselling the data for USD 800 since it is not the “original leakers” of the data.