The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has sent letters to several offices, including the Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC), to collect documents related to the alleged theft of data from the National Identity (NID) database. The letters were sent on Thursday following reports that personal information of millions of registered citizens under the Election Commission (EC) had been stolen. According to the report, data of at least 110 million citizens out of more than 120 million in the country were compromised.

Sources said the EC and BCC had signed a bilateral agreement in October 2022 to protect citizens’ data, prohibiting any exchange or sale of personal information. However, allegations claim that a mirror copy of the data was given to BCC, and Digicon Global Service Limited later sold 46 types of personal data to 182 domestic and foreign organizations, violating the agreement.

The ACC has requested documents from the EC, BCC, and other offices to uncover the details of the illegal data sale. A related case was filed in October 2024 against 19 individuals, including Sajib Wazed Joy and former state minister Zunaid Ahmed Palak.