Bengaluru techie arrested for Aadhaar data theft

Charged with building an Aadhaar e-KYC app that was available for download on Google PlayStore

Abhinav Srivastava, a 31-year old software engineer working with ride-hailing start-up Ola, has been arrested by the central crime branch (CCB) police for building a mobile application that illegally accessed data on the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) servers.

The arrest was made after UIDAI Deputy Director Ashok Lenin filed a case against Srivastava and Qarth Technologies, a company he founded and sold to Ola in March last year, with the Bengaluru Police. The case was then transferred to the cyber crime division, which is now carrying out the investigation.

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