Big security risk for Indian Tax Payer's Identification

I was recently browsing the NSDL website for exploring options to get a PAN card, which I never received and thought of searching for what my online status was. Tried their search interface, which, to computer user would be quite amazing to know that you can search by combination of name/date of birth. And after entering my credentials... I got result for someone that was not me :))... with his PAN.


Wanna see if someone else with your name and DoB exists in PAN registry.. search for it, probably you'll hit someone other than yourself.. as did I.

Now, after having someone's PAN number and name and DoB.. how difficult would it be for me to open an account .. say a bank or DP trading account and do all sort of funny things... probably get involved with Money Laundering ?? All I need is my own one of utility bill, which in this age of internet I can scan and generate a fake one.. along with a fake photo-copy of PAN card.

I haven't included the search URL, however any average Joe would be able to figure that out from any helpful search engine.

I have already sent an email to the authorities about this, however I believe some guys out there may already have faced the same situation.. and some of them may be bad.. trying out all permutations....

Wake-up India..