Page 8 - Data Breach

Data breach: Third party apps leak personal information from FB, Twitter

India is among largest market for Facebook and Twitter.

Foreign hand: Govt sources say int'l lobbies may be behind WhatsApp spying

Govt sources said WhatsApp withheld information from the govt after the May revelations of a spyware targeting Indian users.

Congress says WhatsApp alerted Priyanka Gandhi about possible hacking

Accused the government of being involved in a "surveillance racket"

Beware online frauds

There isn't a great deal you can do but there are a few precautions you can take as a citizen

WhatsApp says 'strong action' taken in spyware breach incident

According to sources, the firm has been asked to submit its response by November 4.

WhatsApp hacked to spy on govt officials in 20 countries, including India

The revelation comes as more than a dozen Indian journalists and human rights activists said on Thursday they were also targeted

Data of nearly 41% Indian companies was stolen last year, says survey

Leaks of internal information and reputational damage due to third-party relationships were among the other key incidents that significantly affected organisations in the past year

Personal data of Ecuador's entire population leaked online, say experts

The security company vpnMentor uncovered the breach on the server run by the firm Novaestrat

In second big breach in Singapore, 14,200 HIV positive people's data leaked

This comes after the health records of 1.5 mn Singaporeans, including Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, were stolen in a suspected state-sponsored attack in June and July

In 2019's first big data breach, over 772 mn email addresses leaked

The cache of emails and passwords appears to have been built up from numerous data breaches dating back to 2008

Quora hit by security breach, hackers steal up to 100 million users' data

The company said it is logging out all Quora users who may have been affected to prevent further damage

Marriott's Starwood database hacked, 500 million customers likely affected

The Federal Bureau of Investigation said it was looking into the attack on Starwood, whose brands include Sheraton, St. Regis, W and Westin hotels

Data breach: India worst hit after US in first half of 2018, says Gemalto

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

Critical personal data should be processed only in India: Srikrishna panel

The panel, headed by former Supreme Court judge BN Srikrishna, also presented a draft bill that will go before parliament designed to enhance data protection.

Singapore hit by data theft; hackers steal health info of PM, 1.5 mn others

The data stolen included the patients' names, National Registration Identity Card numbers, address, gender, race and date of birth

Cost of a single data breach is nearly Rs 120 million in India: IBM study

An estimated per capita cost per lost or stolen records reported last year was Rs 4,552 -- a 7.8 per cent increase from the previous report

Despite EU law, Facebook, Google 'push' users to share data, reveals study

The EU has billed the GDPR as the biggest shake-up of data privacy regulations since the birth of the web

Mismatch in Cambridge Analytica, Facebook's responses on data breach: Govt

Notice said that given Facebook submission and following public apology by US giant, onus now lies with Cambridge Analytica

How a data breach affects the bottom line

A study shows how market falls when companies disclose they have been hacked

Human error is a big security issue in data breaches, says study

Vantage point: Insights from cutting-edge research