Aadhaar data leak in Jharkhand raises doubts, again: Here are the details

Data were easily traceable till Saturday evening; the website was blocked later in the day

An incident in Jharkhand again seems to have raised some serious questions of Aadhaar's data-breach vulnerabilities.

The Aadhaar numbers of hundreds of thousands of pension beneficiaries were suspected to have been illegally displayed on a government website in Jharkhand, in violation of the Aadhaar Act, The Indian Express reported. The lapse, apparently, occured due to a programming error on the Women and Child & Social Security of the Government of Jharkhand's website, maintained by the Jharkhand Directorate of Social Security. 

The Aadhaar Act prohibits public display of an individual's Aadhaar details. But, Opposition and experts have repeatedly raised doubts