Bengaluru’s Central Crime Branch police have arrested Abhinav Srivastav, a software development engineer working at Ola, in connection with a redress filed by the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) against him and Qarth Technologies, for misusing Aadhaar data obtained from its website without any authentication.
He is suspected to have stolen demographic data, details like address, mobile phone number, e-mail of at least 40,000 Aadhaar cardholders. Police said he has not accessed biometric data like fingerprints and iris scans, reported The Times of India.
Chennai-based Qarth Technologies was acquired by India's largest taxi aggregator Ola in March last