Bank accounts of 81 crore Indians in danger, UID data being sold on dark web

American cyber security firm Resecurity has claimed in one of its reports that the Aadhaar data of more than 81 crore Indians has been leaked and it is being sold on the dark web. According to the information, there is a possibility that the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) )’s database has been breached. It said that Aadhaar and passport information of Indians like their names, phone numbers and addresses are being sold on the dark web.

What came out in the resecurity report

Resecurity said in its report that in early October its Hunter (HUMINT) unit had found millions of personally identifiable information records on the dark web, including Aadhaar cards of Indian citizens, which were being sold.

The firm said in its report, “On October 9, a threat actor named ‘pwn0001’ posted a thread on the breach forum, which showed that Aadhaar and passport records of 815 million Indians were accessed.”

The report also said that when HUMINT investigators contacted the threat actor, he was ready to sell the entire Aadhaar and passport data for $80,000.

What information are hackers selling?

According to the report, ‘pwn0001’ was selling multiple data sets of Indians, which included fields like name, father’s name, phone number, second number, passport number, Aadhar number, age, gender, address, district, pincode and state. .