<div align="justify">A 31-year-old IIT alumnus has been arrested for developing a mobile app that provides unauthorised access to Aadhaar data.<br /><br />Police said Abhinav Srivastav, prime accused in the data leak case, was a resident of Yeshwantpur. He hails from Kanpur and graduated from IIT, Kharagpur.<br /><br />On July 26, after the leak came to light, the UIDAI complained to the High Grounds police. The case was transferred to the cyber crime police on July 29.<br /><br />The culpability of two UIDAI insiders — an authentication user agency and a KYC user agency — has not been established, a policeman told DH.<br /><br />AUAs authorise access to biometric details such as fingerprints and iris scans, and KUAs provide demographic details such as name, date of birth, address and contact numbers.<br /><br />Hospital gateway<br /><br />Investigations revealed that Aadhaar data was accessed through the ‘e-Hospital’ application on the National Informatics Centre’s server. The centre enjoys access to UIDAI data as it is an AUA. NIC’s e-Hospital is an open-source health information management system. It is designed to manage multiple hospitals seamlessly.<br /><br />Investigators said Srivastav had designed and developed the app, called Aadhaar e-KYC Verification, and showcased it on Google Play Store for download and use by the public. Users could access Aadhaar-related information hosted by NIC, police said.<br /><br />Abhinav Srivastav developed the mobile app Aadhaar e-KYC Verification in January this year. It was something he did on his own, moonlighting after his day job with Ola Cabs.<br /><br />By the time the leak came to light, the app had been downloaded by about 50,000 mobile users, and he had earned Rs 40,000 from advertisements. Srivastav worked as a software developer for Ola Cabs in Koramangala. <br /><br />His salary was Rs 42 lakh a year, police said. An MSc in industrial chemistry from IIT Kharagpur, he has developed five other mobile apps, all under investigation now.<br /><br />Police have seized a CPU, four laptops, a tab, four mobile phones, six pen drives and other material worth Rs. 2.25 lakh from him. He was produced before a magistrate on August 1. Police are interrogating him in custody.<br /></div>
<div align="justify">A 31-year-old IIT alumnus has been arrested for developing a mobile app that provides unauthorised access to Aadhaar data.<br /><br />Police said Abhinav Srivastav, prime accused in the data leak case, was a resident of Yeshwantpur. He hails from Kanpur and graduated from IIT, Kharagpur.<br /><br />On July 26, after the leak came to light, the UIDAI complained to the High Grounds police. The case was transferred to the cyber crime police on July 29.<br /><br />The culpability of two UIDAI insiders — an authentication user agency and a KYC user agency — has not been established, a policeman told DH.<br /><br />AUAs authorise access to biometric details such as fingerprints and iris scans, and KUAs provide demographic details such as name, date of birth, address and contact numbers.<br /><br />Hospital gateway<br /><br />Investigations revealed that Aadhaar data was accessed through the ‘e-Hospital’ application on the National Informatics Centre’s server. The centre enjoys access to UIDAI data as it is an AUA. NIC’s e-Hospital is an open-source health information management system. It is designed to manage multiple hospitals seamlessly.<br /><br />Investigators said Srivastav had designed and developed the app, called Aadhaar e-KYC Verification, and showcased it on Google Play Store for download and use by the public. Users could access Aadhaar-related information hosted by NIC, police said.<br /><br />Abhinav Srivastav developed the mobile app Aadhaar e-KYC Verification in January this year. It was something he did on his own, moonlighting after his day job with Ola Cabs.<br /><br />By the time the leak came to light, the app had been downloaded by about 50,000 mobile users, and he had earned Rs 40,000 from advertisements. Srivastav worked as a software developer for Ola Cabs in Koramangala. <br /><br />His salary was Rs 42 lakh a year, police said. An MSc in industrial chemistry from IIT Kharagpur, he has developed five other mobile apps, all under investigation now.<br /><br />Police have seized a CPU, four laptops, a tab, four mobile phones, six pen drives and other material worth Rs. 2.25 lakh from him. He was produced before a magistrate on August 1. Police are interrogating him in custody.<br /></div>