Data Leakage

Star Health data for sale on Telegram: How will it impact policyholders?

A hacker named xenZen is reportedly behind the leak. Interestingly, this comes two months after a hacker with the same name claimed to have accessed Airtel India's customer database

Data of 7.5 mn boAt customers leaked on dark web: Forbes India report

The personal data of 7.5 million boAt customers is a being sold at just two euros on the dark web

China's cyberspace body reviewing Shein's data handling practices: Reports

The government is also interested in the type of Chinese data that the company will disclose to regulators in the U.S. as Shein seeks a listing there, the newspaper reported

No silver lining to RBI's cloud

There is no evidence to suggest that a state-run cloud server business would do a better job, with at least two reports of UPI-related data leaks having emerged in the last two years

Aadhaar data of 815 million on sale on the dark web, says report

The hacker was willing to sell the entire Aadhaar and Indian passport dataset for 80,000 US dollars when contacted by Resecurity

Sensitive US military emails reach Russian ally due to 'typo leak'

Millions of US military emails were mistakenly sent to Mali; the leak has exposed highly sensitive information, including diplomatic documents, tax returns, travel details of top officers

Toyota admits another data leak affecting 260,000 car owners, apologises

Toyota has now identified another batch of exposed data that was "potentially accessible externally due to a misconfiguration" of its connected cloud service

52% Indians lost data in last 5 years, high back-up cost major deterrent

Almost one in every two technology device user has lost data at least once in last five years, still 62 per cent respondents do not take full back-up of data, a survey commissioned by Western Digital said on Friday. In a survey of 1,102 device users, the study found cost has major deterrent in taking back-up of their data. "52 per cent respondents have lost the data at least once in last 5 years time. 45 per cent respondents have lost the data at least once in last 1 year time," the survey said. Highest number (56 per cent) of data loss has been due to the physical damage of the device, followed by system crash (52 per cent), losing of device (39 per cent), device stolen (30 per cent), virus (22 per cent), forgetting password (21 per cent) and accedental deletion (7 per cent). The survey found that most video bloggers (50 per cent) took full back-up of their data, followed by IT professionals (43 per cent), photographer (31 per cent) and student (30 per cent). "While there is high

Email marketing leader Mailchimp hacked, customers' data compromised

Email marketing leader Mailchimp has admitted it was hacked and at least 133 customers' data was exposed

Indian Railways denies IRCTC data breach but launches investigation

On December 28, the railways had submitted a data breach alert of the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (Cert-In) to IRCTC

Data of 5.4 mn Twitter users leaked online through an internet bug

As Elon Musk goes gaga over transforming Twitter, at least 5.4 million Twitter user records have been stolen via an internal bug and leaked online on a hacker forum

Everything shouldn't be hardcoded into data protection Bill: Vaishnaw

But it should provide the foundation over which you should be able to build any other regulation required for a particular sector, the minister said

Toyota admits data of nearly 300,000 customers exposed since July 2017

Automaker Toyota has revealed that personal information of nearly 300,000 customers may have been exposed since July 2017

Algo rhythm: Over 14 million cyber-attacks blocked daily, says report

The report is the outcome of an analysis of more than 1,200 websites and over 12 billion requests that the Indusface AppTrana network received in August-September 2022

DoorDash confirms data breach through phishing, customers' data exposed

Online delivery giant DoorDash has confirmed that it has been hit by a data breach, which has affected several customers and merchants

A massive ransomware attack has hit more than 1,000 companies

So far, more than 20 MSPs have been affected, said John Hammond, a cybersecurity researcher at Huntress Labs.

Data of people is safe with CoWIN, allegations of data leak baseless: Govt

Recently, reports surfaced about a data leak affecting 150 million users registered on the Co-WIN portal had surfaced.

McDonald's suffers data breach in US, S Korea, Taiwan; no information leak

Fast food chain McDonald's has suffered a data breach in the US, South Korea and Taiwan, saying no customer financial information was leaked.

Data on 530 mn users reported in leak 'scraped' before Sep 2019: Facebook

Facebook said a recently reported data leak affecting potentially 530 mn users stemmed from misuse of feature in 2019, and that the company had plugged the hole after identifying problem at the time

BigBasket breach: How can people check if their data was hacked?

Most net users have at some time or the other used some service, which has been compromised. You can probe further to check what that data is