Ola employee accused of data theft from Aadhaar website

Founder of Qarth Technologies, a firm acquired by the cab aggregator, is the prime accused

The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has registered a case with the Bengaluru Police against Abhinav Srivastava and Qarth Technologies Pvt Ltd for misusing Aadhaar data obtained from its website without any authentication.

Chennai-based Qarth Technologies was acquired by India's largest taxi aggregator Ola in March last year, to help grow its in-house payments service. Srivastava, the founder of Qarth, worked at Ola in the position of "Hacker at Ola Connected Car Platform", as per his LinkedIn Profile.

Ola declined to comment on Srivastava's current position in the company, while his LinkedIn profile has been edited to hide all