← Employees' Provident Fund Organisation

2022 EPFO — 280M records, unsecured Azure

2022 280.0M records affected Share on X

Data compromised

UAN, Aadhaar, bank accounts, employment, income

Technical writeup

Unsecured Azure servers. 280M records on one IP, 8.4M on another. UAN, names, Aadhaar, bank accounts, IFSC, marital status, employment, income, nominee info. Taken down within 12h of disclosure.

Root cause

Unprotected server; misconfiguration

References