Jharkhand government portal leaking users' identity data: French researcher
New Delhi, July 25 : Famous French security researcher, who goes by the name of Elliot Alderson, claimed on Wednesday that identity data of nearly 9,000 people who logged into the Jharkhand government's portal is available in the open.
In a series of tweets from his handle @fs0c131y, Alderson said the website is leaking identity documents which are available in the public domain.
"Your website is leaking almost 9,000 identity documents. Can you contact me?" the French vigilante hacker tweeted to @ITDept_JH.
"The valid credentials, userid as username and password as password, are hardcoded in the login page," he added.
In an earlier tweet addressed to @MPOnlineLimited, Alderson said: "Your website is leaking more than 52 000 identity documents".
There was no reply from the IT department of Jharkhand government to the researcher's tweets.
The French security researcher has earlier exposed security lapses in Aadhaar, Patanjali's Kimbho app and others.
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Bridge portion collapses on Jammu outskirts; 3-4 labourers feared trapped, 1 rescued
Jammu (PTI): A portion of a small bridge collapsed in the Bantalab area on the outskirts of Jammu city on Friday, trapping at least three to four labourers under the debris, while one injured worker was rescued, official sources said.
Authorities have closed the road link following the collapse of the portion of the bridge.
The incident occurred when labourers were carrying out repair work on a retaining wall near the bridge that was damaged in last year's flash floods, the sources said.
According to the sources, a section of the bridge suddenly gave way, burying workers engaged at the site under the rubble.
Police, Army and State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) teams launched rescue operations to extricate those buried under the debris. They pulled out one injured labourer and shifted him to a hospital, the sources said.
Family members of the labourers present at the site said around six workers engaged at the site at the time of the incident came under the debris when the structure collapsed. The family members said while two of the labourers managed to escape, four got trapped.
The sources said those trapped included the husband of a woman labourer, a mason, an unmarried labourer and a relative of the contractor.
There was no official confirmation on the exact number of persons trapped under the debris till the filing of this report.
The rescue operations are ongoing.
