India's Unique identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has insisted that there has been no misuse of biometric data, following reports about a bank testing its interface with the vast identity project.On 15 February, UIDAI filed a police complaint for attempted unauthorized authentication and impersonation by illegally storing Aadhaar biometric data.According to an Axis Bank spokesperson, a developer from Suvidhaa carried out four live Aadhaar-based authentications even when the testing phase for them was going on.”(UIDAI has) carefully gone into these reports and would like to emphasise that there has been no breach to UIDAI database of Aadhaar in any manner whatsoever and personal data of individuals held by UIDAI is fully safe and secure,” an official statement said.This body has clarified that this was “an isolated case of an employee working with a bank's Business Correspondent's company making an attempt to misuse his own biometrics which was detected by UIDAI internal security system and subsequently actions under the Aadhaar Act have been initiated,” an Electronics and IT Ministry said in a statement.

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