66.9 crore people’s data breach across 24 states in India

It seems like personal data of 66.9 crore people belonging to 24 states and eight metropolitan cities in India has been compromised. The Cyberabad Police arrested an individual who was allegedly involved in stealing, holding and selling of this data maintained in 104 categories. The accused was operating through a website named “InspireWebz” at Faridabad, Haryana and selling database to the clients through cloud.

A press release from the police said the accused, Vinay Bhardwaj, was found possessing data of students of edu-tech organizations, customer data of major organizations like GST, Road transport organizations of various states, major ecommerce portals, social media platforms and fintech companies. More details yet to release.

Some of the important data held by the accused includes the data of defence personnel, government employees, PAN card holders, data of 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th standard students, senior citizens, Delhi electricity consumers, D-MAT account holders, mobile numbers of various individuals, NEET students, high net worth individuals, insurance holders, credit card and debit card holders among others, the release said.