Tag: Data Breach

Digital payments major Paytm allegedly suffered a massive data breach two years back that may have exposed data of over 3.4 million users, cyber-security company Firefox Monitor said on Wednesday.

In addition, WhatsApp is also working on a feature that will enable users to restrict certain information including their 'Last Seen' and profile picture from specific contacts.

Washington: After Facebook admitted that it was hit with a fresh data breach that affected nearly 50 million users, Senator Mark R. Warner (D-VA) has called for a full probe into the incident. Vice Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and co-chair of the Senate Cybersecurity Caucus, Warner said it was high time […]

London: Cambridge Analytica, the data firm at the center of a massive data breach scandal, on Wednesday said that it has filed applications to commence the proceedings and is “immediately ceasing all operations” in Britain. Parallel bankruptcy proceedings will also begin soon on behalf of Cambridge Analytica in the US Bankruptcy Court, Xinhua reported. Cambridge […]

Washington: Yahoo!, now known as Altaba, which was charged with failing to disclose a massive data breach, has agreed to pay $35 million in penalty to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). In a statement late on Tuesday, the SEC said the entity formerly known as Yahoo! Inc. has agreed to settle charges that […]

New Delhi: The government today issued a notice to social networking giant Facebook, seeking its response over the user data breach and details of the measures it has put in place to ensure safety and prevent misuse of personal data. The Ministry of Electronics and IT today said that a notice seeking details relating to […]

The customers' data has been put up for sale on a data sharing platform on June 15 and the incident has been reported to Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) by Technisanct.

National carrier Air India on Friday reported that some information of its passengers has been compromised in a massive cyber data breach with its vendor SITA PSS.

Ankara: Turkey’s Personal Data Protection Authority has fined Facebook 1.65 million Turkish liras ($280,000) over data breach. About 300,000 users in Turkey may have been affected by the data breach that exposed their personal photos in September last year. According to the Turkish watchdog, Facebook failed to timely intervene to take proper technical and administrative […]

San Francisco: In yet another data breach, over 419 million phone numbers linked to Facebook users have been discovered in an open online database. The database included 133 million records of US-based Facebook users, 18 million records of UK users and more than 50 million records of users in Vietnam, TechCrunch reported on Wednesday. This […]

New Delhi: Several Indian users were left nervous on Thursday after witnessing pop-ups on their mobile and desktop screens as they opened certain affected websites in the Google Chrome browser, alerting them about a data breach on the site or app they had visited which also exposed their passwords. Tech giant Google issued warning of […]

New Delhi: In an extremely stressful year for social media users who have been bugged several times this year, Twitter on Saturday admitted a malicious code was inserted into its app by a bad actor that could have compromised several Android users’ information worldwide, including in India. Some users in India woke up to an […]

San Francisco: In a sensational revelation, an investigation on Monday claimed that the popular Avast antivirus — installed on nearly 435 millions Windows, Mac and mobile devices globally — harvested users’ data via browser plugins and then sold it to third parties, including Microsoft and Google. The joint investigation by Motherboard and PCMag that relied […]

New Delhi: Nearly eight in 10 businesses globally feel that the pandemic has increased the likelihood of a state-led or -sponsored cyberattack on their organisation, revealed a new survey by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) and the Cybersecurity Tech Accord on Monday. The businesses call for greater international political cooperation to mitigate these state-sponsored threats. […]