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The Centre today dismissed reports claiming breach of data of people registered on the CoWin portal of the Health Ministry. Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar has assured that the Cowin app "does not appear to be directly breached".
The purpose for which CoWIN was created is over and there is no need for the government to maintain this health data anymore. Ideally, under the Right to Privacy judgement, we should be allowed to demand data deletions.
MoS Rajeev Chandrasekhar said that it does not appear that the CoWIN app or database has been directly breached
Earlier reports had indicated that data from the CoWin portal, which stored personal details of individuals who received the Covid vaccination, had been leaked on Telegram, including information about many Indian citizens, , CoWIN portal, CoWIN Data Breach, central government, MeitY
The CoWIN portal is completely safe with adequate safeguards for data privacy, the Health Ministry said in a statement, adding an internal exercise has been initiated to review the existing security measures.