Data Leak
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Alarming data leak: ProxyEarth website exposes India users' personal details via phone number
Technology | Dec 05, 2025, 11:23 AM ISTProxyEarth reveals key user details such as the user's full name, father’s name, address, alternate number, and email ID—information provided by users when purchasing their SIM card. Furthermore, it also displays their live location.
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BGMI developer Krafton faces accusations of selling users' data in India
Technology | Apr 09, 2025, 06:27 AM ISTThe challenges facing Krafton India, the creator of the BGMI game, may escalate. The game developer has been accused of selling users' data, and a court hearing is scheduled for April 15 next week.
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Government releases Draft Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, no penalties specified
India | Jan 03, 2025, 11:57 PM ISTThe government has released the draft Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Rules 2023, outlining consent mechanisms and data retention policies, but without any mention of penalties for violations. Public feedback invited until February 18.
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Honey trap case: Man spying for Pakistan's intelligence agency ISI arrested in Gujarat's Bharuch
India | May 10, 2024, 11:04 AM ISTA case has been registered against the officers, and employees involved in criminal conspiracy who were in touch with the operative on the WhatsApp number.
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boAt users must watch out for unsuspecting, uninitiated contacts: Experts
Technology | Apr 09, 2024, 07:32 PM ISTboAt has started investigating a possible data breach which involves customer information and users must look out for uninitiated communications from the company.
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Massive Data Breach: Personal info of 815 million Indian users exposed
Technology | Oct 31, 2023, 10:10 AM ISTIn one of India's most extensive data breaches to date, the personally identifiable information of a whopping 815 million Indians has surfaced on the dark web, as disclosed in a report by US-based cybersecurity firm Resecurity.
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CoWIN data 'leak': Two, including a juvenile, apprehended
India | Jun 22, 2023, 01:14 PM ISTCoWIN data leak: There have been claims about a breach of data of citizens registered on the CoWIN platform, and opposition parties have asked the government to take deterrent action.
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Uber ex-security chief sentenced for covering up data breach of millions of customer's records
Technology | May 06, 2023, 01:32 PM ISTJoseph Sullivan, 54, of Palo Alto was convicted by a federal jury in San Francisco last October of obstructing justice and concealing knowledge that a federal felony had been committed.
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What is wrong with Twitter? 200 mn users' data leaked and sold for $200K on Dark Web
Technology | Jan 06, 2023, 12:36 PM ISTOn January 4, a new user on the hacker forum with the username StayMad, leaked the affected Twitter user database containing over 200 million records, which was earlier being offered for $200,000 by the threat actor with username Ryushi at the same English-language speaking cybercrime forum.
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400 million Twitter users data stolen, claims hacker
Technology | Dec 25, 2022, 11:35 PM ISTTwitter data breach: The stolen data includes important data such as users' names, email IDs and phone numbers of users among other details.
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5.4 million Twitter users' data leaked- Know more
Technology | Nov 28, 2022, 01:45 PM ISTAs the new boss of Twitter has been flaunting the upgradation and transformation of the platform, it was reported that the micro-blogging platform has reportedly been hacked and around 5.4 million Twitter users' data got leaked. The hacker stole around 5.4 million of data through an internal bug.
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Google agrees to pay $391 mn in users' location data tracking lawsuit
Technology | Nov 15, 2022, 12:18 PM ISTIn addition to the multimillion-dollar settlement, as part of the negotiations with the AGs, Google has agreed to significantly improve its location tracking disclosures and user controls starting in 2023.
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Data of 2.46 lakh CISF personnel exposed online, claims report
India | Mar 19, 2022, 03:30 PM ISTThe logs allegedly contained records for more than 246,000 full web addresses of PDF documents on CISF's network.
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Govt dismisses claims on CoWIN data leak, clarifies info is safe and secure on digital platform
India | Jan 21, 2022, 10:15 PM ISTEarlier, reports claimed that the leaked data has been put on sale on the Raid Forums website where a cybercriminal claims to have personal data of over 20,000 people.
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Microsoft fixes cloud platform vulnerability after warning
Business | Aug 28, 2021, 06:35 AM ISTMicrosoft has already been in the hot seat over the hack of its Exchange email servers disclosed in March and blamed on Chinese spies.
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After Facebook, LinkedIn now faces massive 500 million users' data leak
Business | Apr 09, 2021, 12:40 PM ISTThe leaked data up on sale includes LinkedIn IDs, full names, email addresses, phone numbers, genders, links to LinkedIn profiles, links to other social media profiles, professional titles and other work-related data
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Phone nos, email ids, income details of 70 lakh Indian debit, credit card holders leaked on dark web
Business | Dec 08, 2020, 08:31 PM ISTThe personal data of as many as 70 lakh Indian debit and credit card holders has been leaked on the dark web, an Internet security researcher was quoted as saying by IANS.
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Zhenhua data leak: Govt sets up expert panel to study reports of China snooping on VIPs in India
India | Sep 16, 2020, 09:32 PM ISTThe Government of India has constituted an expert committee under the National Cyber Security Coordinator to study reports released earlier this week saying that a China-based company is mining data and snooping on hundreds of Indian politicians and leaders.
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Millions of Instagram users' data leaked, company probing
World | May 21, 2019, 08:12 PM ISTAfter Facebook that is battling several data breaches, its photo-sharing service Instagram saw itself in trouble after personal data of millions of celebrities and influencers were allegedly exposed on its platform in a massive database that was traced to Mumbai-based social media marketing firm Chtrbox.
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SBI denies reports of data leak, says bank's server fully protected
Business | Feb 03, 2019, 08:38 AM IST"In the incident that has been highlighted, the investigation has revealed that SBI's servers remained fully protected and there was no breach at this end," the bank said in a statement.