For many years now, we‘ve been among those raising concerns about India‘s giant identity database known as Aadhaar. A few weeks ago, we wrote that there appeared to be a fairly massive breach of data from that database, and that the information was now available on the dark web for cheap.

This is obviously quite concerning and you‘d hope that various Indian government agencies would launch an appropriate investigation. And… it appears at least one investigation has been launched. But, not into the leak. Instead, it‘s allegedly into the reporter who exposed the leak: