French hacker Robert Baptiste, who goes by Elliot Alderson on Twitter, has claimed that there are security issues with the government’s contact tracing app, 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?" the hacker wrote on Twitter tagging the official account of the app.
In a postscript on his tweet, the hacker added that Rahul Gandhi was right. The Congress MP had called the app a “sophisticated surveillance system" and said it raised “serious data security and privacy concerns", on May 2 via Twitter. On the same day, Baptiste sent out a tweet saying, “Rahul Gandhi tweeted about the Arogya app. I guess I’m forced to look at it now."
Baptiste also confirmed that both the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) and the National Informatics Centre (NIC) got in touch with him 49 minutes after his initial tweet. Sources at Niti Aayog said that they will be putting up an official statement about Baptiste’s concerns soon.
French hacker Robert Baptiste, who goes by Elliot Alderson on Twitter, has claimed that there are security issues with the government’s contact tracing app, 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?" the hacker wrote on Twitter tagging the official account of the app.
In a postscript on his tweet, the hacker added that Rahul Gandhi was right. The Congress MP had called the app a “sophisticated surveillance system" and said it raised “serious data security and privacy concerns", on May 2 via Twitter. On the same day, Baptiste sent out a tweet saying, “Rahul Gandhi tweeted about the Arogya app. I guess I’m forced to look at it now."
Baptiste also confirmed that both the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) and the National Informatics Centre (NIC) got in touch with him 49 minutes after his initial tweet. Sources at Niti Aayog said that they will be putting up an official statement about Baptiste’s concerns soon.
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