IndianOil denies Aadhaar data leak claims

New Delhi: Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. on Tuesday denied claims by a French security researcher that the company’s Indane website leaked Aadhaar data of over 67 lakh customers. Indane is a LPG brand owned by the Indian Oil Corporation (IndianOil).

Baptiste Robert, who goes by the online handle Elliot Alderson, wrote in a blog post on Medium on Tuesday that he investigated the issue after receiving an anonymous tip from a Twitter follower.

Alderson’s probe revealed that information in a part of the Indane website was not secured with adequate safeguards. “Due to a lack of authentication in the local dealers portal, Indane is leaking the names, addresses and the Aadhaar numbers of their customers,” he wrote in the blog post.

IndianOil denied the claims saying that the company in its software captures only the Aadhaar number which is required for LPG subsidy transfer.

“No other Aadhaar related details are captured by IndianOil. Therefore, leakage of Aadhaar data is not possible through us,” IndianOil said in a statement. (IANS)

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