The Ministry of Health and the Empowered Group on Vaccine Administration (EGVAC) confirm that the news of CoWIN system data being leaked on the dark web is completely fake
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Recently, social media and some news claimed that the CoWIN system was hacked, after which the government had said to investigate this news as fake. The matter was asked to be investigated by the Ministry of Health and the Empowered Group on Vaccine Administration (EGVAC). Now in this case, the Ministry of Health, while issuing an update, has called these claims completely wrong.
The Ministry of Health has tweeted that the Ministry of Health and the Empowered Group on Vaccine Administration (EGVAC) confirm that the news of CoWIN system data being leaked on the dark web is completely fake. We check this from time to time so that we can verify the security of users’ data on CoWIN.
In a press release issued by the Ministry of Health regarding this matter, it has been said that the case of alleged hacking of CoWIN system has been investigated by the Computer Emergency Response Team of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), in which it has been described as completely baseless. Has gone.
#COVID19 Vaccination Update
➡️Union Health Ministry & Chairman, Empowered Group on Vaccine Administration (EGVAC) confirm that claim of so-called hackers on dark web relating to alleged data leak is baseless.https://t.co/F9AhAcXQ93 @PMOIndia @drharshvardhan @ssharma3 pic.twitter.com/wltxSlt2VM
— Ministry of Health (@MoHFW_INDIA) June 12, 2021
The Chairman of the Empowered Group on Vaccine Administration (EGVAC), Dr. s. Sharma has clarified that, “The alleged claims of hackers on the dark web about the CoWIN system being hacked and data leaks are completely baseless. We are adopting the necessary measures from time to time so that the data of users on CoWIN can be kept safe.”
Let us tell you that on June 9, the data of CoWIN system was claimed to be leaked on Twitter and other social media. It was claimed to include phone numbers, names, emails etc. However, later, many cyber experts also issued an update regarding this saying that this is a bitcoin scam and not the data of CoWIN has been leaked.
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