The CoWIN system used for registering people for COVID-19 vaccination is completely secure and reports of the system being hacked "appear to be fake", the government said in a statement on Thursday. Nonetheless, the matter will be investigated by the Computer Emergency Response Team, known as the government's best counter-hacking group under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY). Denying reports of CoWIN being hacked, the Health Ministry and the chairman of the Empowered Group on Vaccine Administration (EGVAC) said CoWIN "stores all vaccination data in a safe and secure digital environment."
"There have been some unfounded media reports of the CoWIN platform being hacked. Prima facie, these reports appear to be fake. However, the Health Ministry and the EGVAC are getting the matter investigated by the Computer Emergency Response Team of MietY," the government said in the statement.
EGVAC Chairman RS Sharma said CoWIN data is not shared with
any entity outside of the system. "Our attention has been drawn towards
the news circulating on social media about the alleged hacking of CoWIN system.
In this connection we wish to state that CoWIN stores all the vaccination data
in a safe and secure digital environment," Mr Sharma said in the
statement. "No CoWIN data is shared with any entity outside the CoWIN
environment. The data being claimed as having been leaked such as geo-location
of beneficiaries is not even collected by CoWIN," Mr Sharma said.
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