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A new data leak hits Aadhaar, India's national ID database (zdnet.com)
1 point by webartisan on March 26, 2018 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


TLDR; A gas supply utility, Indane, provided an un -authenticated, non-rate limited API proxy to the authenticated Aadhar API, allowing anyone to make more than a thousand requests a minute to fetch personal information, by just iterating through the Aadhar numbers.




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