A man has been arrested by the Delhi Police on Thursday, 22 June, in connection with the alleged data breach of the CoWIN vaccination portal.
In particular: The accused was apprehended from his home in Bihar by the police's special cell, according to a report by The Indian Express.
Police claimed that the accused is the creator of the Telegram bot through which sensitive, health details of several Indians were being leaked.
They said that he is the son of a healthcare worker, who is also being interrogated.
A juvenile linked to the case has also been nabbed, the report added.
Zeroing in: The Delhi Police requested Telegram to share data about the bot as well as its creator, as part of its joint probe with the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In).
"We suspect he [the accused] took his mother’s help to breach the system. He created a bot and shared it on Telegram. We know he was not selling the data to anyone in particular," an unnamed police official was quoted as saying in the report.
"He tried hacking the system and was successful. When he realised he could put all the data online, he did. We don’t think he had any other ulterior motives," the official further claimed.