EPFO has introduced Passbook Lite to let members view contributions, withdrawals and balance in one place, alongside reforms to ease PF transfers and speed up settlements
When news of the purported breach initially surfaced in 2018, the EPFO denied that its systems were compromised
A Ukraine-based researcher has claimed that about 288 million personal records of the EPS holders in the EPFO, were exposed online before being taken off the Internet.
EPFO shut down the website and stopped linking provident fund (PF) accounts with Aadhaar numbers after confidential data stolen by hackers from Aadhaar-seeding portals