With everything that has been happening, there is a growing worry amongst citizens regarding the security aspect of Aadhaar program. Adding fuel to the fire, today, a few state governments websites holding the Aadhaar data have been found vulnerable.

Dainik Jagran

developer has detailed the security holes in the websites of Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh state government. He has also said that several other state government websites are in bad state of security. The developer also states that there are open ports on these websites through which the data can be accessed.

Killer Features independently verified that the sensitive data is available for public without carrying out any of the Cyber attacking methods.

Last week French security researcher Baptiste Robert pointed out on Twitter that he found details of more than 20,000 Aadhaar cards under three hours.

Yesterday, I found 20K+ #Aadhaar cards with a manual search. @UIDAI: Do I need to create a Twitter bot which is doing this work automatically and publish the result on Twitter to have a reaction from your side? — Elliot Alderson (@fs0c131y) March 11, 2018

And he had noted that all the details of these Aadhaar cards were publically available. In a response, UIDAI's twitter account retorted that Aadhaar details are not really confidential information.