I don’t know if I have to laugh or cry : French Researcher

Hyderabad : A French security researcher used a basic web hacking technique to breach the Telangana government’s benefit disbursement portal TSPost, which has the account details including Aadhaar numbers of 56 lakh National Rural Employment Guarantee (NREGA) scheme beneficiaries and 40 lakh beneficiaries of the social security pensions.

In theory, a government website is very secure but in India it’s another story... http://tspost.aponline.gov.in is vulnerable to a basic SQL injection, the researcher, Baptiste Robert said on Twitter, where he goes by the handle Elliot Alderson. Hackers and researchers use SQL or structured query language code to attack the back-end of websites. A basic SQL injection allows an attacker to access the database of the website, Robert said according to TOI. To be clear all the data on this website can be a dump. Telangana government officials say they are working to fix it. For this website they have to hire decent web developers to protect it from attacks.
In a follow-up tweet about how the government fixed the problem, Robert said, I don’t know if I have to laugh or cry. He said the government had fixed the issue by putting the website offline.
In Surat, stolen biometrics were used to steal rations. The police arrested two fair price shop owners after busting the racket that involved diverting subsidised food items by using an illegal software that used the stolen data.
In the Rajya Sabha, the Minister of State for Finance Shiv Pratap Shukla had admitted that nearly Rs 1.5 crores in cash was fraudulently withdrawn from Public Sector Bank accounts using customers Aadhaar numbers.