Amid allegations of information breach, Centre says CoWIN portal has ‘full’ safety measures

Express News Service

NEW DELHI: The CoWIN portal has full safety measures and sufficient safeguards for information privateness, the centre mentioned on Friday within the Lok Sabha.

However, the Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Satya Pal Singh Baghel didn’t verify whether or not there was any case of violation of privateness of information on the CoWIN portal, regardless of being requested by Bharatiya Janata Party MP Hema Malini.

“There were media reports recently of an apparent breach of Co-WIN data of beneficiaries who have received COVID-19 vaccination in the country,” Baghel mentioned in a written reply.

However, he mentioned that actions had been instantly taken on this regard.

In June this yr, there have been reviews of alleged information leak of private info of individuals, together with some opposition leaders and bureaucrats. This was the second occasion of alleged information leak from the CoWIN portal, India’s COVID-19 vaccination monitoring platform. Such a breach was additionally reported in 2022. The authorities had denied it again then and had mentioned it was “safe and secure.”

In the written reply, Baghel mentioned the portal has “complete security measures and adequate safeguards for data privacy with Web Application Firewall (WAF), Anti-DDoS, SSL/TLS (regular vulnerability assessment) Identity and Access Management.”

Listing the steps, he mentioned all Co-WIN APIs for each authorities and personal sector had been deactivated instantly thus utterly limiting Co-WIN entry.

Media response on the Co-WIN information breach was issued instantly informing that the Co-WIN portal is totally secure with sufficient safeguards for information privateness.

A gathering was taken with CERT-In (Indian Computer Emergency Response Team) to debate necessities for investigation by CERTIn and points on Co-WIN Platform safety. A grievance narrating the incident was made to the National Cyber Crime Cell.

He mentioned additional steps had been additionally taken to make sure extra security of information on the CoWIN portal. These included two-factor authentication options (Password & OTP) whereas login by the customers (service suppliers) was put in place on Co-WIN. All log trails of customers are captured and saved within the Co-WIN database securely. Password reset has been completed for all providers offered on Co-WIN, the minister added.

NEW DELHI: The CoWIN portal has full safety measures and sufficient safeguards for information privateness, the centre mentioned on Friday within the Lok Sabha.

However, the Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Satya Pal Singh Baghel didn’t verify whether or not there was any case of violation of privateness of information on the CoWIN portal, regardless of being requested by Bharatiya Janata Party MP Hema Malini.

“There were media reports recently of an apparent breach of Co-WIN data of beneficiaries who have received COVID-19 vaccination in the country,” Baghel mentioned in a written reply.googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

However, he mentioned that actions had been instantly taken on this regard.

In June this yr, there have been reviews of alleged information leak of private info of individuals, together with some opposition leaders and bureaucrats. This was the second occasion of alleged information leak from the CoWIN portal, India’s COVID-19 vaccination monitoring platform. Such a breach was additionally reported in 2022. The authorities had denied it again then and had mentioned it was “safe and secure.”

In the written reply, Baghel mentioned the portal has “complete security measures and adequate safeguards for data privacy with Web Application Firewall (WAF), Anti-DDoS, SSL/TLS (regular vulnerability assessment) Identity and Access Management.”

Listing the steps, he mentioned all Co-WIN APIs for each authorities and personal sector had been deactivated instantly thus utterly limiting Co-WIN entry.

Media response on the Co-WIN information breach was issued instantly informing that the Co-WIN portal is totally secure with sufficient safeguards for information privateness.

A gathering was taken with CERT-In (Indian Computer Emergency Response Team) to debate necessities for investigation by CERTIn and points on Co-WIN Platform safety. A grievance narrating the incident was made to the National Cyber Crime Cell.

He mentioned additional steps had been additionally taken to make sure extra security of information on the CoWIN portal. These included two-factor authentication options (Password & OTP) whereas login by the customers (service suppliers) was put in place on Co-WIN. All log trails of customers are captured and saved within the Co-WIN database securely. Password reset has been completed for all providers offered on Co-WIN, the minister added.