{"id":37160,"date":"2018-07-24T12:21:51","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T12:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=37160"},"modified":"2018-07-24T12:21:51","modified_gmt":"2018-07-24T12:21:51","slug":"neet-candidates-data-leak-rahul-writes-to-cbse-chief-seeks-inquiry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/neet-candidates-data-leak-rahul-writes-to-cbse-chief-seeks-inquiry\/","title":{"rendered":"NEET candidates\u2019 data leak: Rahul writes to CBSE chief, seeks inquiry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi<br \/>\nCongress president Rahul Gandhi has written a letter to the Central Board of Secondary Education over media reports claiming \u201cmassive breach\u201d of data of candidates who appeared for the NEET examination this year.<\/p>\n<p>In the letter to CBSE chairperson Anita Karwal, Gandhi called for putting in place additional safeguards to prevent such a breach in the future.<\/p>\n<p>The Congress leader\u2019s letter comes following reports that personal data, including names, phone numbers and email ids of over 2 lakh candidates, who appeared for CBSE\u2019s National Eligibility and Entrance Test this year were available for a price on some online portals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am shocked by this wide-scale theft of personal data that has compromised the privacy of candidates across the country,\u201d Gandhi said in his letter.<\/p>\n<p>He said it highlighted the \u201cserious lack of safeguards\u201d to prevent data breach, and called into question the ability of the CBSE to ensure the sanctity of the examination process.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi Congress president Rahul Gandhi has written a letter to the Central Board of Secondary Education over media reports claiming \u201cmassive breach\u201d of data of candidates who appeared for the NEET examination this year. In the letter to CBSE chairperson Anita Karwal, Gandhi called for putting in place additional safeguards to prevent such a [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37161,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[312],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37162,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37160\/revisions\/37162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}