UIDAI is a Client
Millions of Indians woke up on Saturday, 27 October, to a lengthy apology published in national newspapers and issued to “the People of India” by Gemalto, a global digital security agency.
In an unprecedented move, Gemalto CEO, Phillip Valle, tendered an unqualified apology on Saturday, for publishing a global Breach Level Index report on 15 October that had claimed 1.2 billion Aadhaar records were compromised in a breach in the first half of 2018.
However, in retracting its report hastily and offering a profuse apology, Gemalto appears to have withheld one key fact – UIDAI, the Aadhaar issuing body, is a client of Gemalto.
Gemalto is in the process of a merger with Thales, a French aerospace and defence technology company, within the first quarter of 2019. Rafale fighter jets from them.
— source thequint.com | 29 Oct 2018