Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Union minister

The Union Health Ministry said reports claiming breach of data on the CoWIN platform were “without any basis” and “mischievous” in nature. “CERT-In in its initial report has pointed out that backend database for Telegram bot was not directly accessing the APIs of CoWIN database,” the ministry said in a statement.

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It is reported that the bot has been able to pull individual data by simply passing the mobile number or Aadhaar number of a beneficiary, it said.

According to reports, information including a person’s phone number, gender, ID card details, last four digits of Aadhaar, and the name of the centre where the vaccine was received were also leaked on the channel. Opposition parties demanded an inquiry into claims about breach of data.

TMC’s Saket Gokhale claimed that individuals whose data has been breached include several Opposition leaders like Rajya Sabha MP and TMC leader Derek O’Brien, former Union minister P Chidambaram, Congress leaders Jairam Ramesh and KC Venugopal and Rajya Sabha MPs Sushmita Dev, Abhishek Manu Singhvi, and Sanjay Raut. He also named several journalists.

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