The Union government on Thursday refuted reports of CoWin system being hacked and said that the data on the platform is safe. CoWin is a platform that is being used for registering people in India for COVID-19 vaccination.

“There have been some unfounded media reports of the CoWIN platform being hacked. Prima facie, these reports appear to be fake. However, the Health Ministry and the EGVAC are getting the matter investigated by the Computer Emergency Response Team of MietY,” the government said in a statement on Thursday. 

RS Sharma, the chairman of the Empowered Group on Vaccine Administration (EGVAC), also denied that reports, saying, CoWIN “stores all vaccination data in a safe and secure digital environment.”

“Our attention has been drawn towards the news circulating on social media about the alleged hacking of CoWIN system. In this connection we wish to state that CoWIN stores all the vaccination data in a safe and secure digital environment,” Mr Sharma said.

“No CoWIN data is shared with any entity outside the CoWIN environment. The data being claimed as having been leaked such as geo-location of beneficiaries is not even collected by CoWIN,” he added.