The Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) of Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has investigated the matter of the alleged hacking of the Co-WIN program and it has located this to be a false claim.
Co-WIN is a platform for the citizens to register for Covid-19 vaccination, schedule their vaccination at the nearest vaccination centre and then get vaccination certificates.
Dr R S Sharma, chairman of the Empowered Group on Vaccine Administration (EGVAC), clarified that the claims of so-referred to as hackers on the dark net, relating to alleged hacking of the Co-WIN program and information leak, was baseless. “We continue to take appropriate steps as are necessary, from time to time, to ensure that the data of the people is safe with Co-WIN,” Sharma stated in a release issued by the Union wellness ministry.
Sharma stated the Co-WIN program had a number of firewalls place in spot to assure such points did not come about. Both the Co-WIN group and the CERT had verified that no such occasion had occurred. The program disallowed information download beyond a specific level at each application and cloud level, he stated in an interview with a tv channel.
The only information stored about citizens had been names, age, gender and mobile numbers which had been stored in a secure and safe atmosphere with encrypted information, he stated. The only information and facts they had been providing out was a digital vaccination certificate, Sharma stated.
Sharma also stated they had been contemplating to add to the Co-WIN program a facility exactly where citizens could report any adverse occasion post-vaccination. The program now permitted for correction in name of the vaccinated in the vaccine certificate and two lakh errors had been corrected so far.