On 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.
Twitter data breach: The stolen data includes important data such as users' names, email IDs and phone numbers of users among other details.
As 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.
In 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.
The logs allegedly contained records for more than 246,000 full web addresses of PDF documents on CISF's network.
Earlier, 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.
Microsoft has already been in the hot seat over the hack of its Exchange email servers disclosed in March and blamed on Chinese spies.
The 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
The 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.
The 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.
After 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.
"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.
Three Paytm employees arrested for stealing data and blackmailing CEO Vijay Shankar Sharma
Three Paytm employees arrested for allegedly stealing data, confidential information and blackmailing owners for Rs 20 crore, says Noida Police.
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.
A report was doing rounds on the social media that Paytm is sharing its users's data with third parties.
The statement comes after some social media and online news channel reports suggested that key Aadhaar software was available in the black market which purportedly bypasses operators biometric authentication and facilitates making of Aadhaar cards without any documents.
UK based marketing analytics firm Cambridge Analytica has announced that it was shutting down and would file for insolvency in the United States and Britain after failing to recover from the Facebook data privacy scandal.
“No confirmed data leakage has been established or observed so far. As part of the data security and protection, EPFO has taken advance action by closing the server and host service through CSC pending vulnerability checks,” EPFO said.
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).
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