Aadhaar, banking data leaked? UIDAI trashes reports: Top 10 developments

UIDAI, the nodal agency implementing the Aadhaar project, had earlier this week assured the Supreme Court that it was near to impossible to break the Aadhaar encryption

The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), the nodal agency for implementing the Aadhaar project in India, on Saturday refuted a report by technology news platform ZDNet which claimed that Aadhaar had been hit by another major security lapse. The report, coming days after UIDAI told the Supreme Court that it would take even the world's fastest computer "the whole universe's strength to break the Aadhaar encryption", claimed thet private information of a large number of citizens had been compromised.

According to the ZDNet report, an Aadhaar data leak on a system run by a state-owned utility company could allow access to