Government denies hacker’s claims of security breach in Aarogya Setu app

A French hacker who goes by the name of Elliot Alderson on Wednesday continued to tweet that the government’s Aarogya Setu app has a lot of security issues and can be hacked easily, thereby revealing the identities of those infected by Covid-19 or those unwell.

His tweets on Tuesday said ‘five people felt unwell at the PMO, two unwell at the Indian Army headquarters, one infected at Parliament and three infected at the office of the Ministry of Home’.

“Yesterday an attacker was able to know who is infected, unwell, made a self assessment in the area of his choice. Basically, I was able to see if someone was sick at the PMO or the Indian Parliament. I was able to see if someone was sick in a specific house if I wanted,” Alderson said in the tweet.