{"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","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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37161,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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}]}}