AP, Telangana in political slugfest over ‘data theft’

Amazon Web Services gets notice from Cyberabad police; Naidu slams move

A war of words erupted between the Andhra Pradesh and Telangana governments after the Cyberabad police here booked a case against IT company IT Grids India Pvt Ltd for allegedly obtaining access to private data (Aadhaar and voter ID) of individuals residing in Andhra Pradesh through the ‘Seva Mitra’ app.

The police has served a notice on Amazon’s cloud service company, Amazon Web Services, which hosts the data on the app that is run by IT Grids and belongs to the TDP. The police are also approaching the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) and the Election Commission (EC) for more details. “We have asked for the production of the database relating to the app and other data (related to the case),” Cyberabad police said.