Your Data May Be Sitting in a Government System a Stranger Could Walk Into
If you've ever filed a visa application, enrolled in an Indian government service, or done business through an Indian state portal, your personal records may have been sitting behind a digital door that wasn't locked. A single researcher found a critical flaw that, by their account, could have let anyone take over an entire national government portal without needing to break in.
Bottom Line
This isn't a dramatic confirmed breach -- it's a warning shot. A lone researcher finding a portal-takeover flaw signals that the gap between how exposed these systems are and how quickly defenders notice remains dangerously wide, and that gap is a problem for everyone whose data passes through trusted government infrastructure anywhere.
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