13-feet walls not enough: Stealing your Aadhaar details costs just Rs 125

For P Santosh Kumar, a SIM card distributor from Hyderabad, the cost of replicating a physical fingerprint and fraudulently activating a SIM card was a cool Rs 125

That the central Aadhaar database has never been breached and can’t be breached is an often-made claim, especially by the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) and its CEO.

According to the UIDAI, sharing your Aadhaar number is also not an issue, since biometric authentication is required for misuse.

There is, however one place, where both Aadhaar numbers and fingerprint scans are available freely outside the central database — your local sub-registrar office.

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