Govt pension portal for defence personnel SPARSH suffers data breach

Adding to a series of data breaches over recent months, the dedicated government pension portal for defence personnel, SPARSH, recently suffered a data breach.

The digitised pension processing system, SPARSH, offers online pension-related facilities to over 3 million pensioners from 50 organisations, including the Border Roads Organisation and Military Intelligence.

While the exact details of the breach were not disclosed, a post on the messaging platform Telegram mentioned data such as usernames, passwords, pension numbers, and more.

In response to an email query from Business Standard, CERT-In stated, “We are already in the process of taking appropriate action with the concerned authority.”