Media reports claim about Aadhaar Enrolment Software being allegedly hacked, has been declared as “completely incorrect” and “irresponsible”, by the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI). These claims made in the report lack substance and are deliberately trying to create confusion in the minds of people regarding Aadhaar and its regulations .
“UIDAI hereby dismisses a news report appearing in social and online media about Aadhaar Enrolment Software being allegedly hacked as completely incorrect and irresponsible. The claims lack substance and are baseless. UIDAI further said that certain vested interests are deliberately trying to create confusion in the minds of people which is completely unwarranted,” the Aadhaar-issuing body stated in a series of tweets.
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UIDAI hereby dismisses a news report appearing in social and online media about Aadhaar Enrolment Software being allegedly hacked as completely incorrect and irresponsible. 1/n
This response from the UIDAI comes hours after, a report in “HuffPost India” stated that the authenticity of the data stored in Aadhaar identity database has been compromised by a software patch that disables critical security features of the software used to enrol new Aadhaar users. And this report was later shared and promoted by the Congress Party members without checking its authenticity.
The hack of the Aadhaar enrollment software jeopardises the sanctity of the Aadhaar database. We hope the authorities will take the appropriate moves to secure future enrollments and verify the suspect enrollments. huffingtonpost.in/2018/09/11/uid…
It’s just a few hours back that the Congress Party members and its supporters were claiming Aadhaar Enrolment Software being hacked, and the media houses were in full swing supporting the campaign of spreading this news all over the Social media handles.
There were a few of the Anti-Indian and Anti- Modi brigade who came forward to support this news and thus spread it as a weapon against PM Narendra Modi. The false reports claimed that, the Aadhaar Software was avaliable for Rs. 2500 and allows unauthorized persons to generate Aadhaar numbers from anywhere in the world thus trying to prove that the information of millions of people was in danger.
The UIDAI clarified that no operator can make or update Aadhaar unless resident himself give his biometric, it said: “Any enrolment or update request is processed only after biometrics of the operator is authenticated and resident’s biometrics is de-duplicated at the backend of UIDAI system.”
The UIDAI said that it matches all the biometric (10 fingerprints and both iris) of a resident enrolling for Aadhaar with the biometrics of all Aadhaar holders before issuing an Aadhaar, and so the claims of introducing information into Aadhaar database were “completely unfounded”.
UIDAI has also advised the public to approach authorised Aadhaar enrolment centres in bank branches, post offices and Government offices to ensure that the enrolment/updation is done only on authorised machines. It has also made it clear that it keeps adding new security features in its systems on timely basis in order to prevent security threats.
Source: Timesnow news
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