IIT grad arrested for illegally accessing Aadhaar data
A 31-year-old software engineer was arrested in Bengaluru for illegally accessing Aadhaar data for his app 'Aadhaar E-KYC Verification'. Abhinav Shrivastav, an alumnus of IIT-Kharagpur, linked his app to the 'e-Hospital' application of the National Informatics Centre, to access the database. His app was downloaded 50,000 times on the Play Store and he earned â¹40,000 from ads on the app.