[wiz21c]

>>> Who could benefit indirectly from the breach?

This and who will buy those data ?

Everybody scream about the hack but I've never found a comprehensive study over how these personal data are sold, abused. Maybe to break gazillions of FaceBook/github/you-name-it accounts ? Then what, who will use those data ? Thieves ? Criminals ? If it's just that well, that's a minor inconvenience.

If it's secret services of adversary powers, well, that's a whole lot different.

Anybody has facts on that ?

[wtmt]

> Then what, who will use those data ? Thieves ? Criminals ? If it's just that well, that's a minor inconvenience.

It's only a minor inconvenience if you can sit in a comfortable place and pontificate on Hacker News about these things. Seems like you're not even aware that people have already lost their pension money or bank account balances or didn't get food that they were entitled to and died in the process — everything related to the coercion in the Aadhaar system and how it can be misused by others for fraudulent purposes.

Perhaps your privilege in life is standing in the way of understanding how bad things are with the Aadhaar system. Please search for #AadhaarFail on Twitter, look for articles on scroll.in and thewire.in (two sites that some people do hate) and rethinkaadhaar.in.

[wiz21c]

Now I'm reading my comment again, I see how I offensed some people here. My idea was more like "globally thinking", like in "geopolitics", in that case, even a few deaths is not much (it's like people who allocate money for cancer research : they have to make sure the population is globally better; it doesn't mean every one should get out alive). And my wording was rather poor. Sorry it was absolutely not the idea I wanted to convey. Mea culpa.

[vishnugupta]

I don't have facts/pointers but just an educated guess.

The most probable beneficiaries are food/gas etc., distributors. Pre Adhaar days they used to create fake ration/gas cards and sell food at un-subsidised prices in black market.

A prime (purported) driver for Adhaar to stop creation of these ghost people. Now that ghost Adhaar accounts can be created (per the report) these distributors will get back to their old ways of making money.

India has lot of poor people so the threat vector isn't yet FB/github :-).

[snaky]

> ghost people

Classics. https://www.quora.com/How-exactly-does-the-scam-in-Nikolai-G...