India health data faces rising risk of breaches, cyberattacks

Last year, responding to reports of breaches of data from India’s CoWIN vaccine portal, the head of the National Health Authority, RS Sharma, said that it had “state-of-the-art security infrastructure and has never faced a security breach.”

Last month, Sharma’s own personal data was exposed in a massive leak of CoWIN data via the Telegram app. Officials first denied a breach had taken place, then days later, Delhi police said they had arrested two individuals in relation to the leak.