An incident in Jharkhand again seems to have raised some serious questions of Aadhaar's data-breach vulnerabilities. The Aadhaar numbers of hundreds of thousands of pension beneficiaries were suspected to have been illegally displayed on a government website in Jharkhand, in violation of the Aadhaar Act, The Indian Express reported.

The lapse, apparently, occured due to a programming error on the Women and Child & Social Security of the Government of Jharkhand's website, maintained by the Jharkhand Directorate of Social Security. The Aadhaar Act prohibits public ...