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by bvsrinivasan·3y ago·view on hn ↗
The net number (669 million) looks wrong. India's population is around 1.4 billion, so this would mean a data leak of nearly 1 in 2 Indians. If we further remove children below 14 (30% of India) who are unlikely to have data of their own and others who are completely off any of the data leak sources, the number given here would mean everyone in India has had their data leaked!

The data distribution given in the article seems to add to approximately 7 crores (70 million). I think there is a misplaced decimal somewhere. In all probability it is 6.69 crores (66.9 million). Still very significant, though.

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They show 21 crore from Uttar Pradesh. This state has enough people, but it’s almost everyone. So yeah, hard to believe the original statement.
Thanks! I didn't read the data in the pictures, only read the text. Time for GPT4 I guess :-D

As you said, this also looks wrong. Maybe double-counting? Same people or IDs getting leaked across multiple platforms?

> India's population is around 1.4 billion

1.4b currently living people.

Just because people pass away doesn't mean their data stops existing in government records.

I'm not saying the figure is necessarily correct, just that your reason for dismissing it is faulty.