Two held over involvement in CoWIN data 'leak'

In connection with their alleged involvement in the alleged data leak from the CoWIN portal, a man from Bihar was detained and a young person was arrested, officials said on Thursday. According to them, the man is suspected of leaking the information using the Telegram app.

According to reports, information about citizens registered on the CoWIN platform may have been compromised. Opposition parties have urged the government to take preventative measures.
Such reports have been labelled "mischievous" and "without any basis," but the government insists that the CoWIN portal is completely secure and has sufficient data privacy safeguards.


The issue was referred for review to the nation's nodal cyber security organisation CERT-In, which stated in its initial report that the CoWIN database's APIs were not directly accessed by the backend database for the Telegram bot at the centre of the alleged leak.

The Union Health Ministry also announced in a statement that an internal exercise has been started to review the current security precautions. The CoWIN portal is a database that contains information on everyone in the nation who has received a COVID-19 vaccination.