Delhi has refuted claims of a leak in personal information stored in the CoWin portal, arguing that the data is completely safe and reports of the data breach are "mischievous."
It comes after the IT South Asia Index news channel posted a series of tweets claiming that there was a leak of private information and documents of citizens, politicians, bureaucrats, and others carried out via Telegram on Monday.
The leaked data allegedly included Aadhaar, voters ID, passport data and cellphone numbers of those who received COVID-19 vaccines.
"CoWIN portal of the Ministry of Healthcare is completely safe and guarantees data privacy (...) Only OTP (One Time Password) authentication-based access is provided," said the authority's statement.
News about the alleged leak was soon picked up by opposition leaders and parties to slam the federal government.
The Ministry of Healthcare requested that the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) investigate this issue.
The Minister for Electronics and Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar tweeted that the data was distributed by a bot that took information from a threat actor database with already leaked documents.