Aadhaar dare: after TRAI chief, hacker asks PM Modi’s Aadhaar number

TRAI chief’s challenge was accepted by accepted by French hacker Elliot Alderson who revealed the personal details in a series of tweets.

Now the hacker targets Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his Aadhaar number.

After embarrassing the TRAI chief by revealing his details with the help of his Aadhaar number, the challenge is now thrown to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Anderson, who describes himself as a French security researcher on Twitter, tagged PM Modi on social media and asked him to disclose his Aadhaar number.

Hi @narendramodi,

Can you publish your #Aadhaar number (if you have one)?

Regards,

— Elliot Alderson (@fs0c131y) July 28, 2018

This comes a day after TRAI chief R S Sharma was left embarrassed after he published his Aadhaar no. on Twitter.

My Aadhaar number is 7621 7768 2740
Now I give this challenge to you: Show me one concrete example where you can do any harm to me!

— RS Sharma (@rssharma3) July 28, 2018

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Anderson accepted his challenge and within few hours, posted the personal details of Sharma, including his mobile number, date of birth, alternate phone number and PAN card details.

Not only the details of Sharma, Anderson also obtained the phone number of his secretary.

In another tweet, the portion of which was blackened out, the hacker said he even obtained a photograph of Sharma with his wife and daughter.

I supposed this is your wife or daughter next to you pic.twitter.com/UPSru1PGUT

— Elliot Alderson (@fs0c131y) July 28, 2018

“If your phone numbers, address, dob, bank accounts and others personal details are easily found on the Internet you have no #privacy. End of the story (sic),” the hacker added.

The purported breach of privacy, as illustrated by Anderson, raised concern over the government’s move to make Aadhaar mandatory for availing all schemes, services, and subsidies. Critics claim the mandatory usage of the UIDAI card number could not only breach the right to privacy but may also allow the government to create a surveillance state.