New Delhi: UIDAI on Sunday claimed that the personal details of Trai chief R.S. Sharma being put out on Twitter are not from the Aadhaar database or its servers, and that these are easily available with a simple search on Google and other sites, without using the 12-digit unique identity number.
Trai chief Mr Sharma on Saturday had kicked-off a storm on Twitter by revealing his Aadhaar number and challenged activists to show how public disclosure of it could harm him.
Soon ethical hackers started putting out what they claimed to be Mr Sharma’s phone number, alternate phone number, personal photo graph supposed to be his whatsapp profile, PAN details, frequent flyer number, date of birth, voter ID details, address and email account IDs.
Mr Sharma did not verify whether the specific details pertaining to PAN and others were indeed correct.
However, UIDAI, in a statement on Sunday, dismissed claims that the personal details
of Mr Sharma was fetched using his Aadhaar number.
UIDAI maintained that any information published on Twitter about Mr Sharma was not fetched from the Aadhaar database or UIDAI’s servers.
“In fact, this so called ‘hacked’ info (about Mr Sharma’s personal details such as his address, dob, photo, mobile number, email and so on) was already available in public domain as he being a public servant for decades and was easily available on Google and various other sites by a simple search without Aadhaar number,” it said. UIDAI said claim by “so-called hackers” they had got Mr Sharma’s personal details by hacking Aadhaar database “is a farce and people should not believe such fraudulent elements active on social and other media.”
“Aadhaar database is fully safe and secure and no such information about Mr Sharma has been fetched from UIDAI’s severs or Aadhaar database. This is merely cheap publicity by these unscrupulous elements who try to attract attention by creating such fake news,” it said.
