Sharma's info not fetched from Aadhaar database: UIDAI

With the Twitter users claiming that they have fetched personal details of Trai Chairman R S Sharma by hacking Aadhaar server after he made his Aadhaar number public, the UIDAI on Sunday said that the personal details of the Trai chief being put out on Twitter are not from the Aadhaar database or its servers.

Rubbishing all claims that personal details of Sharma were dug up using his Aadhaar number, the UIDAI said it "condemns such malicious attempts by few individuals to malign Aadhaar".

The Trai chairman on Saturday shared his Aadhaar number publicly through twitter, challenged anyone to show how mere knowledge of the number can be misused to harm him.

This has trigered a tsunami of tweets with the twitterati claiming to disclose Sharma's personal details - from PAN to mobile number, residence address and claimed that these information they got by hacking Aadhaar or UIDAI data base.

Dismissing the claim of micro blogging site users that they have fetched the details from Aadhaar server, the UIDAI said "so called hacked information" is easily available with a simple search on Google and other sites, without using the 12-digit unique identity number. Aadhaar data base is safe, said the statement.

"This is merely cheap publicity by these unscrupulous elements who try to attract attention by creating such fake news," it alleged.

Anyone can google or tap other sources and find out Sharma’s personal details without Aadhaar, UIDAI said, pointing out that the Trai chief mobile number and email id is available on NIC website as he was, at one point, the IT Secretary.

Similarly, other details like date of birth is available in the civil list of IAS officers kept in public domain.

"They clubbed all these inputs and claimed that they have managed to breach Aadhaar database and got his personal details, which is completely false," the statement said.

The Aadhaar issuing body argued that people usually give PAN or mobile number at many places, and noted: "Someone can pick other personal data from different websites as he gets to know his PAN/mobile number".

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What UIDAI says

All details from TRAI chief Sharma fetched not from UIDAI server.
No body can breach UIDAI data base.
Details of date of birth, telephone no is collected from google search.
Online search can get number of information.