NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's biometric ID programme, Aadhaar, has been hit by another major security lapse, allowing access to private information, business technology news website ZDNet reported on Saturday. Even though the security lapse had been flagged to some government agencies over a period of time, it has yet to be fixed. "This is a security lapse. Aadhaar, a biometric identification card with over 1.1 billion users, is the world's biggest database. "Each Aadhaar biometric is encrypted by a 2048-key combination and to decode it, the best and fastest computer of our era will take the age of the universe just to hack into one card's biometric details," Ajay Bhushan Pandey said.

Source: The Star March 24, 2018 14:03 UTC