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A new data leak hits Aadhaar, India's national ID database

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Re: A new data leak hits Aadhaar, India's national ID database

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TLDR; A gas supply utility, Indane, provided an un -authenticated, non-rate limited API proxy to the authenticated Aadhar API, allowing anyone to make more than a thousand requests a minute to fetch personal information, by just iterating through the Aadhar numbers.