Data of people is safe with CoWIN, allegations of data leak baseless: Govt

RS Sharma, chairman of the Empowered Group on Vaccine Administration (EGVAC), on Saturday, refuted claims of a data leak affecting users registered on the government’s Covid-19 vaccine portal Co-WIN.

“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. We continue to take appropriate steps as are necessary, from time to time, to ensure that the data of the people is safe with Co-WIN,” Sharma said.

Recently, reports had surfaced about a data leak affecting 150 million users registered on the Co-WIN portal. The government had noted that while the data leak appeared to be fake, it would investigate the matter.