The Vahan and Sarathi ministry maintains the Centralized National Registry through the National Informatics Centre and it contains approximately 25 crore vehicle registration records and 15 crore driving licence records.
The average cost of data breach in India grew 7.29 per cent year-over-year to reach Rs 12.8 crore from Rs 11.9 crore last year, said a new study by IBM on Tuesday.
British Airways says it has been notified by the UK Information Commissioner's Office that it intends to issue the airline with a £183m fine over the theft of customer data from its website (SKY).
The Uttar Pradesh police's Special Task Force (STF) on Sunday said it has nabbed the kingpin of a gang that procured data of 14 lakh customers illegally and allegedly duped people to the tune of Rs 200 crore through online fraud over a period of time.
An unprecedented international grand committee comprising 22 representatives from seven parliaments will meet in London next week to put questions to Facebook about the online fake news crisis.
945 data breaches led to 4.5 billion data records being compromised worldwide in the first half of 2018 out of which over 1 billion data records have been exposed in India, as per the recent findings of the Breach Level Index.
The information was notified by Ben Smith, Google Fellow and vice-president of engineering, in a blog post on Monday, in which he noted that the Indian-American headed company could not confirm which users were impacted by the bug.
The latest move comes after the social media firm admitted to the data breach in a blog post last Friday, saying attackers exploited a vulnerability in the website's code in September in a way that could have given them access to people's accounts.
Facebook recommends developers stick to its Login security best practices like using official Facebook SDKs for Android, iOS and JavaScript, using the Graph API.
It is feared that a significant number of affected users are from India, given the fact the company has the maximum 270 million users in the country.
An Amazon spokesperson in a brief statement said that the company is "conducting a thorough investigation of these claims."
The issue of abuse of social media platforms has been under scanner in India over the last few months and the government has resolved to take tough action to prevent any platform misuse.
One97 Communications Ltd, which owns the brand Paytm, India's largest digital payments company, never shares any of its user's data with any third party agencies, stakeholders, investors or any foreign entity, it said.
Gandhi, in his letter, has requested the CBSE chairman for additional safeguards to prevent the recurrence of such data breaches.
It was asked to provide copy of replies received from Facebook and Cambridge Analytica on the notices sent by the ministry.
The UK's data protection watchdog plans to fine Facebook 500,000 pounds ($662,954) over the Cambridge Analytica scandal. It would be its biggest ever penalty.
According to Google, it provides data only to outside developers it has vetted and to whom users have explicitly granted permission to access email.
In a post on his Facebook page, Koum said that he is taking time off to pursue interests such as collecting air-cooled Porsches, working on cars and playing ultimate Frisbee.
The report says that Twitter sold public data access in 2015 to Aleksandr Kogan, then a psychology researcher with University of Cambridge and his company Global Science Research (GSR).
The researchers found two types of vulnerabilities: Seven third parties abusing websites' access to Facebook user data and one third party using its own Facebook "application" to track users around the web.
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