Don't shoot the messenger

UIDAI must review its security set-up

On January 4, The Tribune newspaper carried a report on how anonymous sellers over WhatsApp were allegedly providing access to Aadhaar numbers for a paltry sum of Rs 500. The report claimed that personal details such as names, addresses, phone numbers, etc of a whole host of people could be easily accessed by logging into the portal of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), and that printouts of all these details were being made available for another Rs 300. This was shocking enough; what was appalling was the response of the UIDAI, which first accepted this was a massive