Is the Aadhaar database secured enough?

Hello everyone, myself Himanshu Gupta.

What I feel is for security purpose, linking every single information with aadhaar card is not secured enough, as it will give rise to many cyber crime.

Earlier when government Selected few entrepreneurs for aadhaar card database management few of them misuse their power and sold admin rights for just RS 500. So this means you can access whole data for a very small amount.

Hello everyone I am Antara Saha.

Everyone point of view is different from their sides. From my side, Aadhar Card is useful for us. It can carry unique identification. Person's every identity is included there.

Before some years ago when we want to create our bank account or something like that we need many things but now a days for creating bank account or similar types of things we just only need Aadhar Card. That is much easier. And that will reduces people's golden times. We don't need our others extra ordinary details for all time through only Aadhar Card we can do everything.

Hello friend. I am sukanta.

In my point of view, the database of Aadhar is secure every time because it is not linked to any other database. But sometimes some hacker hacks this database for criminal activities. It is also th responsibility for India government to secure from hackers.

Hello everyone, Myself Manoj Nogia.

Well, each person has their own opinion about Adhaar Card Security & in my opinion Adhaar Card is not secured enough. Few days ago one of our Cabinet Minister tweeted his Adhaar card details and challanged someone to hack his account. Few days later, some hackers managed to know his account details and deposited 1 Rupee. And time to time we have seen such type of Adhaar card hacking incidents.

One thing is for sure that we don't need other identification cards as we can attach only Adhaar card as id and it saves a lot of time for people. But security poinnt of view it's not secure enough. I think so.

In my opinion, Aadhar is necessary as it uidai have all the detail of the person and for crime purpose or any offense or anything, it is very easy to identify this person. But the aadhar detail is not that much secure as there is a day to day fraud cases of varies aadhar linked thing. Mainly by any chance if someone gets your mobile and your aadhar card, he/she can access the details very easy using OTP in the registered mobile number. Thus aadhar detail is not that much safe government need to keep this data away from the fraud people.

Yes, in my opinion.

Aadhar database is secured enough that one can use it free mindly by just keeping few points in mind.

Aadhar has many step verification procedure that reduces the chances of data theft.

Also, the government is working on facial recognition character which solidifies the security further.

So for a secured platform their always need of being it's updation so that it lessens the risk of data theft.

Also, it has interlinked with many other details and mobile no. So that any case can be tracked.

According to my view, linking adhar with your mobile no. Bank account or any private stuff through which your personal identity and details can be misused and it is not safe because if any one gets your adhar card, thy can easily hack and can get through the personal details.

Aadhar card is a 12 digit unique number that has all the details of a resident of India.

Recently, a news article shared on the internet showed how a French cybersecurity specialist hacked the Aadhar database in a minute. Do you still have doubts over how secure the database is?

Aadhar cards are made even without the presence of a person whom it belongs to, so just imagine how securely it will all work.

A hacker will churn out all the details from the Aadhar database and that person (just a random 12 digit number in the database) will get destroyed.

There has been a number of cases where people's data privacy has been breached through Aadhar database. This clearly shows that it is not secured enough. The database is created and stored with the help of biometrics like iris, fingerprints but still it can be accessed by hackers.

To talk about this I have checked and found the below information:.

Government states that-.

1. The UIDAI has established two large-scale data centres to ensure complete security of data and applications, and it regularly conducts audits by reputed third-party agencies to keep its systems and processes up to date.

2. Aadhaar platform is built mostly on open source technologies, with propriety technologies being used only where necessary. In general terms, we can say that no private contractors may sell/steal the data.

3. Encryption uses the highest available public key cryptography encryption (PKI-2048 and AES-256).

4. While adopting any propriety software for biometrics, the design approach followed by the UIDAI is to have multiple vendors in an architectural layer, with a payment model put in place such that the vendors are had been given incentives to improve quality, accuracy and speed. These vendors or their services can be replaced if they do not meet stringent service level agreements. More than 100 different companies are involved in groundwork, so that monopoly doesn\'t become an issue.

Having said that, there were a lot of scams happened earlier and many advanced software has many made to steal data. The recent news is "Traders buy bio-metric data for Rs. 15000", but they have been caught as our police was investigating that how they get such software.

With the above information, I feel that the everything is spoof-able. I've read in one of the articles which state that even an iPhone has also promised complete security but it takes just 24 hours by the hackers Mark Rogers and Jan Krissler to unlock it. I'm personally not convinced with the thought that Aadhar database is 100% secured enough.

However, I want to advise some of the prevention:

1. Please don't share your Adhar number with other people.

2. Never share you Adhar copy and if you are using so just self-attest it and mention the reason for which.

That Aadhar copy has been used.

I also want to provide a very useful information here that UIDAI has provided a feature to lock/unlock. You can lock your Aadhaar card after that no one can be able to read that data through anyway, and it's vice versa even you can you can also unlock it whenever it's required.

Thanks.