This archive contains actual instances of misuse of Aadhaar for profit or those that put the integrity of the Aadhaar database into question.
March 2018: In yet another classic case of hacking the biometric authentication system, 27 people were arrested in what was described as “hi-tech cheating” by a senior official in the Rajasthan Police Constable Entrance Examination 2018. The accused said they learnt the art of making a thumb-print clone on youtube. Read more…
The official Aadhaar enrolment software requires the Aadhaar operator to authenticate using iris scans as well as fingerprints. Huffington Post has reported an enrolment scam in Maharashtra, where Aadhaar enrolment officer, Mangesh Sitaram Bhalerao provided people who worked under him with rubber stamp copies of his thumbprint. These rubber stamp fingerprints Read more…
The UIDAI keeps denying that Aadhaar is secure. Biometics can't be bypassed, enrolment software can't be hacked, and so on. So I put together a quick list. This list is under construction. Keep checking for updates. April 2012: An enrolment agent was found to have issued 30,000 Aadhaar cards in Read more…
Chandigarh: In yet another blow to the much touted Aadhaar eco-system, a recent case of a huge "scam" involving Aadhaar seeding of a large number of ration cards with unique identity (UID) numbers of those not entitled to subsidised ration has come to light in the Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs Read more…
3 people were arrested and three web cameras, one cooling pad, three laptops, three LCDs, a biometric machine, a finger-print scanner, 65 Aadhar cards, one PAN card, eight voter IDs, lamination machines and other equipment were confiscated during a raid in Pachchhaiya in Amroha. Acting on a tip off, Amroha Read more…
Aadhaar enrollment operators use a software provided by the UIDAI to collect or update information about individuals to be entered or updated into the Aadhaar database. This software is called the ECMP (Enrollment Client Multi Platform) and the UIDAI has claimed in the Supreme Court that it is extremely secure, Read more…
Frequent warnings by banks and police are apparently not the solution to combating debit/credit card fraud. The Hindu reports that Cyber Cell officials in Kerala's Kozhikode district are discovering three new cases every month on average. The victims are usually educated middle-class families or the elderly, and many are yet Read more…
AHMEDABAD: In another instance of a fake Aadhaar creation racket, police here arrested three people who were making Aadhaar cards for people who did not have any identity documents, and were charging Rs 600 per card against the government norm of Rs 30. The Times of India, quoting the Deputy Read more…
In two separate incidents , two aadhaar cards of the same person with different date of births were found to be submitted to the courts. The first incident concerns a habeas corpus petition being heard by the Madhya Pradesh High court. The court came across two Aadhaar cards pertaining to Read more…
AADHAAR is only as secure as its weakest link – which could literally be any document. Read on to find out more. According to The Tribunes latest report, a senior police official said three persons had been booked on the allegations of making fake domicile and residence certificates of hundreds Read more…