India investigates reports of Covid portal breach, data leak

This isn’t the first time the portal has been hacked. In January last year, news reports said data belonging to some 20,000 people had been leaked onto online marketplace forums, which the government denied. — AFP Relaxnews

India’s government is investigating reports that a health ministry portal containing personal data from anyone in the country who received a Covid-19 vaccination was breached.

Across Twitter, users have posted screenshots of a bot using Telegram, an encrypted messaging app, to pull individual data from mobile phone numbers entered into the portal.