Digital Personal Data Protection: India's Privacy Law Comes of Age
From the landmark right to privacy judgment to the 2026 amendments, India's journey toward comprehensive data protection legislation has been long and contentious.
Data breaches, cyber threats, digital security, privacy regulation, and India's cybersecurity landscape.
Data breaches, cyber threats, digital security, privacy regulation, and India's cybersecurity landscape.
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The apex body in India for the formulation, coordination and promotion of biomedical research. Its COVID-19 testing database was the suspected source of India's largest data breach compromising 81.5 crore Aadhaar and passport records.

The national nodal agency for cybersecurity incident response, operating under MeitY. CERT-In was notified of the 81.5 crore data breach in October 2023.

The statutory authority responsible for issuing Aadhaar numbers and managing the Aadhaar ecosystem. UIDAI was not the source of the breach but its database metadata was exposed through the ICMR breach.

A US-based cybersecurity firm whose HUNTER unit discovered the 81.5 crore Indian data breach on the dark web and alerted Indian authorities.
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