Data Breach
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Who was stealing data from Facebook, Instagram?
Technology | Jul 06, 2022, 12:00 PM ISTThe clone websites could be used to display people's scraped data, scam people, and damage the credibility of the original site.
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WhatsApp fined $267 million by Irish watchdog for breaching EU data protection rules
World | Sep 02, 2021, 06:05 PM ISTIreland’s privacy watchdog has fined WhatsApp a record 225 million euros ($267 million) after an investigation found it breached stringent European Union data protection rules on transparency about sharing people’s data with other Facebook companies.
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No cyber breach into NIC email system: Centre
India | Jun 13, 2021, 09:58 PM ISTThe clarification comes on the backdrop of reports on impact of data breaches in organisations such as Air India, Big Basket and Domino's which claimed that these breaches have exposed email accounts and passwords of NIC emails to the hackers.
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Dominos employees, customer data leaked by hackers, company claims financial details still safe
Technology | May 24, 2021, 11:01 AM ISTAccording to the experts, the leak cost Dominos the data of 18 crore orders. Hackers have even put the data on sale on the dark web.
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Personal data of 500 million LinkedIn users leaked online
News | Apr 11, 2021, 10:21 AM ISTThe online network for working professionals, LinkedIn recently suffered a massive data breach in which personal data of over 500 million users were leaked on a popular hacker forum. According to Mashable India, the leaked data consists of personal sensitive information including email IDs, workplace information, contact numbers, full names, account IDs, social media account links, gender details, and more.
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Personal information of 1,29,000 users stolen in data breach, says Singapore’s Singtel
World | Feb 18, 2021, 08:20 AM ISTSingtel, an associate of Bharti Airtel, has completed initial investigations into the breach and established which files on the Accellion file transfer appliance (FTA) were accessed illegally, reported Channel News Asia on Wednesday, citing the company's news release.
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Over 22 bn records exposed in data breaches in 2020: Report
Technology | Jan 15, 2021, 10:51 PM ISTOver 22 billion records were exposed worldwide amid 730 publicly disclosed data breaches in 2020, a new report revealed on Friday.
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e-grocery BigBasket admits to customer data 'breach'
Technology | Nov 09, 2020, 12:43 PM ISTBigBasket provides services in 25 cities and towns across the country, offering to deliver 18,000 products from 1,000 brands through the year.
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Bigbasket faces data breach; details of 2 crore users put on sale on dark web
Business | Nov 08, 2020, 09:02 AM ISTIn a potential data breach, details of around 2 crore users of grocery e-commerce platform Bigbasket may have been leaked, news agency PTI quoted cyber intelligence firm Cyble as saying. The company said that a hacker has put data allegedly belonging to Bigbasket on sale for around Rs 30 lakh.
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Dr Lal PathLabs, famous blood test lab, exposes millions of users' data
Technology | Oct 10, 2020, 10:36 AM ISTThe data belonged to millions of patients and could be accessed by anyone and even misused by people with malicious intents
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Millions of users' Instagram, YouTube and more data leaked: Know what is it
Technology | Aug 21, 2020, 11:45 AM ISTThe leaked data included four different datasets with information such as the profile name, full name, images, age, gender, account description, and profile statistics
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OnePlus 'accidentally' exposes hundreds of customer emails: Know details
Technology | Jul 25, 2020, 07:17 PM ISTOnePlus has yet again leaked hundreds of users' data due to an accident. Read on to know more about it
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Twitter sorry for data breach involving business clients: Know what is it
Technology | Jun 24, 2020, 02:51 PM ISTTwitter has been found leaking users' data as part of another data breach by the social media giant
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Data breach at SpiceJet, report says 1.2 million passengers' info leaked
Business | Jan 31, 2020, 01:31 PM ISTIn a statement, SpiceJet said: "At SpiceJet, safety and security of our fliers'' data is sacrosanct. Our systems are fully capable and always up to date to secure the fliers'' data which is a continuous process. We undertake every possible measure to safeguard and protect this data and ensure that the privacy is maintained at the highest and safest level".
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SpiceJet data breach affects 1.2 million passengers; Here's how
Technology | Jan 31, 2020, 01:09 PM ISTSpiceJet has just been hit by a data breach affecting millions of passengers. Read on to know more
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Instagram data breach: Thousands of users' personal data leaked
Technology | Jan 31, 2020, 11:21 AM ISTInstagram has yet again been involved in a data breach and leaked thousands of users' data. Read on to know more
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Bad news for Credit, Debit cardholders! Over 30 million cards' information put online for sale
Business | Jan 29, 2020, 04:03 PM ISTWawa data breach: Do you hold a Credit card or Debit card or both and make payments through it at stores, marts and others, then this is really bad news for you. Information of millions of cards (Debit and Credit) has been breached and was put for sale online.
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Another data breach, this time Amazon-owned Ring app caught leaking users' data to 3rd parties
Technology | Jan 29, 2020, 11:07 AM ISTAmazon-owned Ring doorbell app has been reportedly leaking user' data to third parties. Read on to know more
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Avast antivirus reportedly sold users' data to Google, Microsoft: Know what it is
Technology | Jan 28, 2020, 10:52 AM ISTAvast Antivirus has reportedly sold users' data to Google and Microsoft. Read on to know more
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Facebook fined with $1.6 million by Brazil over data breach
Technology | Dec 31, 2019, 01:09 PM ISTFacebook has been slapped with a fine of $1.6 million by Brazil. Read on to know more: