In March 2018, the Intelligence Bureau (IB) reportedly informed The Ministry of Labour and Employment of India that private data from one of the Aadhaar seeding portals of the Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) had been stolen by hackers, leading to a shutdown of the facility a month earlier. The data theft was from the EPFO’s web portal, which helped subscribers link their provident fund accounts with their Aadhaar numbers. In a note to Dinesh Tyagi, chief executive officer (CEO) at Common Service Centre (CSC) which was dealing with the Aadhaar seeding application, EPFO Commissioner V P Joy (Joy) wrote, “It has been intimated that the data has been stolen by hackers by exploiting the vulnerabilities in the website (aadhaar.epfoservices.com) of EPFO. The web portal has been closed one-and-a-half months back immediately after the possible data theft was reported to us during a process of routine security check. There was some problem in the application run by CSC and it is not related to our data centre that maintains the EPF accounts.” However, the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) said that the website on which the data breach had allegedly taken place did not belong to it. .

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