PF-Aadhaar seeding portal hacked, EPFO refutes claim: All you need to know

EPFO shut down the website and stopped linking provident fund (PF) accounts with Aadhaar numbers after confidential data were stolen by hackers from the Aadhaar-seeding portal about a month earlier

Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) has apparently had to shut down the portal that it uses to for Aadhaar seeding with provident fund accounts of its subscribers following an alleged data breach where confidential user information was stolen by hackers.

The issue was purportedly raised by EPFO Central Provident Fund Commissioner V P Joy in a letter to Common Service Centre (CSC) Chief Executive Dinesh Tyagi on March 23. 

“The web portal has been closed one-and-a-half months ago, immediately after a possible data theft was reported to us during a process of routine security check. There was some problem in