Data Leak
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Three Paytm employees arrested for stealing data and blackmailing CEO Vijay Shankar Sharma
News | Oct 23, 2018, 11:42 AM ISTThree Paytm employees arrested for stealing data and blackmailing CEO Vijay Shankar Sharma
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3 Paytm employees arrested for blackmailing e-wallet giant's founder with stolen data, info for Rs 20 crore
India | Oct 22, 2018, 08:00 PM ISTThree Paytm employees arrested for allegedly stealing data, confidential information and blackmailing owners for Rs 20 crore, says Noida Police.
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Facebook faces record UK fine over Cambridge Analytica scandal
Technology | Jul 11, 2018, 11:15 AM ISTThe 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.
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Paytm refutes reports of sharing Indian users’ data with third parties
Technology | May 26, 2018, 04:58 PM ISTA report was doing rounds on the social media that Paytm is sharing its users's data with third parties.
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UIDAI rubbishes reports on underground market sale of Aadhaar enrollment software
India | May 03, 2018, 11:45 AM ISTThe 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.
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Facebook data scandal fallout: Cambridge Analytica shuts down all offices
News | May 03, 2018, 09:59 AM ISTUK 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.
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Data leak scare: EPFO suspends CSC services 'pending vulnerability checks'
Business | May 02, 2018, 08:13 PM IST“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.
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Twitter also sold data to Cambridge Analytica researcher in 2015: Report
Technology | Apr 30, 2018, 12:03 PM ISTThe 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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Facebook clarifies how it collects data when you're logged out
Technology | Apr 17, 2018, 11:28 AM ISTFacebook is embroiled in a widening scandal that a British data firm called Cambridge Analytica improperly gathered detailed information on its 87 million users.
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Data of over 5 lakh Indians 'improperly' shared with Cambridge Analytica, admits Facebook
Technology | Apr 05, 2018, 01:18 PM ISTWhile most users are from the US -- over 70 million – 5,62,455 Indian users' data has also been shared with Cambridge Analytica.
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Facebook needs 'a few years' to fix problems of private user data, says Mark Zuckerberg
Technology | Apr 03, 2018, 02:17 PM ISTZuckerberg also fired back at comments last week from Cook, who argued that Facebook got into trouble because of a business model focused on monetizing people’s data.
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Data leak just a way to divert public attention away from the death of 39 Indians in Mosul
Politics | Mar 22, 2018, 12:21 PM IST