Services pertaining to Aadhaar-seeding with PF accounts done by Common Service Centre (CSC) have been suspended "pending vulnerability checks", retirement fund body EPFO said today but maintained that there was no data leakage.
The statement from the EPFO came amid reports of a letter purportedly written by EPFO Central Provident Fund Commissioner V P Joy to CSC's CEO, Dinesh Tyagi on March 23 flagging the data theft issue.
While announcing the suspension of CSC services, the EPFO said, "Warnings regarding vulnerabilities in data or software is a routine administrative process based on which the services which were rendered through the CSC have been discontinued from March 22, 2018."