There is no security breach in coronavirus tracking app Aarogya Setu, the government said today in response to claims by a French “white hat”, or ethical hacker, who said on Tuesday that the “privacy of 90 million Indians is at stake”. In a detailed statement released this morning the government said there was “no data or security breach” and that “no personal information of any user has been proven to be at risk by this ethical hacker”.
Apparently unimpressed by the government’s response, which he attached in his tweet, the hacker said: “Basically, you said “nothing to see here”. We will see. I will come back to you tomorrow”. Around two hours later the hacker asked the government: “Do you know what triangulation is”, referring to the process of locating an unknown point by forming triangles from known points.On Tuesday the hacker, who goes by the name Elliot Alderson and had previously exposed flaws with the Aadhaar app, posted a series of tweets warning of a “security issue”. Mr Alderson also wrote: “PS: Rahul Gandhi was right” and tagged the Congress MP in his tweet.
“Hi Aarogya Setu, a security issue has been found in your app. The privacy of 90 million Indians is at stake. Can you contact me in private? Regards. PS: Rahul Gandhi was right,” the first tweet read.
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