policy5 Jul 202611 min read
Digital Personal Data Protection: India's Privacy Law Comes of Age
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Cybersecurity & Data Privacy
Data breaches, cyber threats, digital security, privacy regulation, and India's cybersecurity landscape.
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Data breaches, cyber threats, digital security, privacy regulation, and India's cybersecurity landscape.
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Indian Council of Medical Research
The apex body in India for the formulation, coordination and promotion of biomedical research. Its COVID-19 testing database was the suspected source of India's largest data breach compromising 81.5 crore Aadhaar and passport records.
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Indian Computer Emergency Response Team
The national nodal agency for cybersecurity incident response, operating under MeitY. CERT-In was notified of the 81.5 crore data breach in October 2023.
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Unique Identification Authority of India
The statutory authority responsible for issuing Aadhaar numbers and managing the Aadhaar ecosystem. UIDAI was not the source of the breach but its database metadata was exposed through the ICMR breach.
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Resecurity Inc.
A US-based cybersecurity firm whose HUNTER unit discovered the 81.5 crore Indian data breach on the dark web and alerted Indian authorities.
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