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Indian government’s cloud spilled citizens’ personal data online for years

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Feed Name: TechCrunch Security News

Threat Score
75/100

Date Published: 2024-04-03

Date Updated: 2026-04-23

Author: Jagmeet Singh

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A security researcher discovered a misconfiguration in the Indian government’s S3WaaS cloud platform that exposed hundreds of documents containing sensitive citizen data (Aadhaar numbers, COVID-19 vaccination records, passport details) to the public and indexed by search engines; CERT-In and the National Informatics Centre were notified and some links were removed, but exposures reportedly persisted and some data were allegedly sold on a cybercrime forum.

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