A hotel check-in platform called Tabiq exposed more than a million customer passports, driver’s licenses, and selfie verification photos on the open web after its operator, Japan-based startup Reqrea, left an Amazon cloud storage bucket publicly accessible. A security researcher discovered the leak by browsing the bucket using only its name “tabiq,” and TechCrunch alerted Reqrea and JPCERT. Reqrea later locked down the bucket, but said it doesn’t know how it became public or whether anyone accessed data beforehand.
The Supreme Court will hear a PIL on May 4 seeking tighter Aadhaar issuance norms. The plea requests that new Aadhaar cards be issued only to children up to six years old, while demanding stricter safeguards for adolescents and adults. The petition argues that tighter verification is needed to stop infiltrators from obtaining Aadhaar by posing as Indian citizens.
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