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4.5 million PDS beneficiaries' data breached in Tamil Nadu, reports Technisanct
Updated On: 01 July, 2021 09:34 AM IST | Bengaluru | IANS
It has also emerged that tnpds.gov.in was a victim of a cyber attack and was hacked by a cyber criminal group who goes by the name 1945VN. Over 68 million beneficiaries and 67 million Aadhaar are linked to this particular portal. There is a possibility that the identified breach is only a part of the information published by the vendor.
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Personal information pertaining to more than 4.5 million people is at stake following a reported data breach in Tamil Nadu's public distribution system (PDS).
The alarming data breach, which took place on June 28, has been reported by Technisanct, a cyber security and big data startup which says that it is possible only the tip of a far bigger data breach.
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