Data breach: Personal data of Covid vaccine recipients leaked on Telegram

In a major data breach, the information of hundreds of thousands of Indians who received the covid vaccine was leaked on a Telegram channel. According to several reports, crucial information like a person’s phone number, gender, ID card information and date of birth was leaked on Telegram. It could be retrieved from a Telegram bot by entering a person’s name.

According to a report by The Fourth News, a Malayalam news portal, the documents related to the mobile number registered in the CoWin portal are available on the channel. It is also possible to know which vaccine was administered and where it was administered.