Claims of CoWIN system hacking, data breach ‘baseless’: Health Ministry

The Centre has dismissed reports that the country’s Covid-19 vaccination platform, Co-WIN portal, being hacked.

However, the union health ministry said the matter of the alleged hacking of the Co-WIN system will be investigated by the Computer Emergency Response Team, known as the government’s best counter-hacking group under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY).

Dr R S Sharma, who heads the CoWIN portal, and is also the Chairman of the Empowered Group on Vaccine Administration (EGVAC) has clarified that “the claims of so-called hackers on the dark web, relating to the alleged hacking of the Co-WIN system and data leak, is baseless”.