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Congress claims Aadhaar enrolment software hack jeopardised sanctity of UIDAI

Indo Asian News Service • September 11, 2018, 15:35:45 IST
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Congress claims Aadhaar enrolment software hack jeopardised sanctity of UIDAI

Amid reports of an alleged breach of the **Aadhaar** database, the Congress on 11 September said that the sanctity of the unique identification system was jeopardised. The party’s remarks came after an investigation by HuffPost India revealed that the Aadhaar database, which contains the biometrics and personal information of over one billion Indians, “had been compromised by a software patch which disables critical security features of the software used to enroll new Aadhaar users”. According to the report, any unauthorised person from anywhere in the world can generate **Aadhaar ID** using the patch which is freely available for Rs 2,500. [caption id=“attachment_4865121” align=“alignnone” width=“1024”] ![Representational image.](https://images.firstpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Aadhaar-720.1-1024.jpg) Representational image.[/caption] “The hack of the Aadhaar enrolment software jeopardizes the sanctity of the Aadhaar database. We hope the authorities will take the appropriate moves to secure future enrolments and verify the suspect enrolments,” the Congress said in a tweet. French security expert Elliot Alderson_—who had last month sparked a controversy by asking the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) to explain why its helpline number was stored on many people’s phone without their knowledge—_also joined in the conversation asking the UIDAI to work with the hackers to plug the breach. “I repeat it: NOTHING IS UNHACKABLE. It does apply for Aadhaar. UIDAI, it’s never too late. Listen and work with hackers instead of threatening them. History is looking to you,” he said. According to the HuffPost report, “the patch lets a user bypass critical security features such as biometric authentication of enrolment operators to generate unauthorised Aadhaar numbers”. It also disables the GPS security feature of the software allowing anyone from any location to enrol users. “The patch reduces the sensitivity of the enrolment software’s iris-recognition system, making it easier to spoof the software with a photograph of a registered operator, rather than requiring the operator to be present in person,” the report said. It claimed to have the patch analysed by three internationally reputed experts and two Indian analysts, all of whom confirmed it could be used to breach the Aadhaar software.

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