Bengaluru civic body faces flak over data breach of Covid patients

Mumbai/Bengaluru: Covid-19 data records of those who have tested in Bengaluru were out in the public domain for some time, which is a clear violation of IT rules around data privacy and can lead to misuse of the information, experts have said.

Free Software Movement of India, a coalition of organisations working on data privacy, on Tuesday flagged that Covid-19 data record was being published by Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike’s (BBMP’s) contractor Xyram Software Solutions (Xyramsoft).

“We demand an immediate shutdown of this PHAST site until access management and a security audit is done,” Kiran Chandra, general secretary of FSMI, wrote in a letter to BBMP special commissioner (health and IT) Rajendra Cholan P.