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15 Jan 2023

Another BIG DATA BREACH, over 2.5 billion Google Chrome users' details at risk

If they are not managed appropriately, these linkages could likewise be utilised to expose vulnerabilities.

28 Dec 2022

Another BIG DATA BREACH in India, 3 crore rail passengers' detail put on sale

A hacker has put the data up for sale on the dark web. Only a few days have passed since the All India Institute of Medical Science AIIMS. According to reports, the data breach happened on December 27.

17 Sep 2022

OMG! An 18-year boy hacks Uber, employees' thoughts someone is joking

Social engineering is a method of hacking in which users are lured through a fake social network site. Hackers create a fake website that looks like a real one. The user puts his credentials in it and the hacker trap victims.

28 Aug 2022

Akasa airline suffers data breach including personal details of passengers

Akasa Airline, which began its operations this month, met a data breach. It informed CERT-IN team to lose passengers' personal details like gender, phone no., etc. Akasa said to self-reported the CERT-IN team about the breach and took all emergency measures.

Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail

16 Jan 2022

Aditya Birla Fashion faces data breach, over 5.4 million email IDs compromised

ABFRL has assured that it will have no operational or business impact on its operations. The company has engaged forensic security experts to investigate the data breach incident. Over 5.4 million email addresses were released online from the portal of the Aditya Birla Group-owned company.

23 Nov 2021

PNB denies any ‘breach of system’ after allegations of customer data leak

Cyber security firm CyberX9 had claimed data breach PNB denies allegations in a statement

Punjab National Bank

21 Nov 2021

PNB customers Alert! Data of users remained exposed for 7 months: Report

PNB has confirmed the glitch in its servers. However, the bank has refused the report of any exposure of critical data due to the vulnerability. He said that vulnerability was found in an exchange server.

08 Nov 2021

CDSL Data Breach: 44 million investors' personal data leaked

According to CyberX9, the problem could have been resolved in two hours. This breach will have an impact on investors since they will almost certainly become the target of phishing attacks in which hackers impersonate brokers, banks, and corporations in order to defraud them of their money. The people whose data was exposed were those who did their market securities KYC,' according to the cybersecurity firm SAID.

27 Aug 2021

Microsoft warns thousands of Azure cloud customers of exposed databases

Microsoft`s email to customers said there was no evidence the flaw had been exploited. The flaw was in a visualization tool called Jupyter Notebook. Luttwak said even customers who have not been notified by Microsoft could have had their keys swiped by attackers, giving them access until those keys are changed.

18 Aug 2021

T-Mobile hack jolts US, data of 4 crore users stolen by hackers: Report

Dates of birth, first and last names were also stolen, the telecom services provider said. The company, which had 104.8 million customers as of June, acknowledged the data breach on Sunday. The seller was offering data on 30 million people for 6 bitcoin, or around $270,000.

McDonald's data breach

11 Jun 2021

Shocking! McDonald's faces data breach in South Korea, Taiwan

The details of the breach in the two regions were the outcome of an investigation by external consultants following an unauthorized activity on the company's network. The company will take steps to notify regulators and customers listed in the files. Some companies have had to pay a ransom to gain control of their operations and restart production.

11 Jun 2021

Centre dismisses reports of CoWin data breach as ‘fake’, issues clarification

Union Health Ministry on Thursday issued a statement that said that CoWin stores all the vaccination data in a safe and secure digital environment. The Union Health Ministry further refuted the reports of CoWin data breach as fake.

25 May 2021

Explained: Here’s why COVID-19 pandemic accelerates more cyberattacks in India

Domino’s India became a victim of a major data leak as more than 18 crore orders’ data has been put up on the dark web for sale as a searchable database. Last year, even companies like Haldiram, WhiteHatJr, and others were not spared from such attacks. India has been at the receiving end of such dastardly attacks because of a lack of investment in IT infrastructure.

22 May 2021

Most Indian firms witness data breach in past 1 year, says survey

This global survey was conducted by independent market researcher Vanson Bourne on behalf of Barracuda. It included responses from 100 application security decision makers in India responsible for their organisation's application development and security. Respondents in India identified their top application security challenges as software supply chain attacks (59 percent), security slows application development time (48 percent), bad bots (45 percent), securing APIs (44 percent), and vulnerability detection (38 percent).

22 May 2021

Air India data breach: Here’s what you need to know

Data of more than 45 lakh users has been compromised. Air India's SITA PSS server was subject to a cybersecurity attack. Personal details of Air India flyers were compromised.

07 May 2021

Google two-factor authentication may get automatically enabled to your account

For validating 2FA, users will have to enter their passwords along with a simple tap via a Google prompt on their phone. If Google activates 2FA authentication to your account, don’t imply that your password was weak. Last year only, searches for “how strong is my password” increased by 300%.

26 Apr 2021

Alert! Apple's AirDrop comes with a security flaw that can cause data breach

This could potentially lead to a data breach of over 1.5 billion Apple users and can further cause security issues. Any person can access Apple users’ email addresses and mobile numbers, despite being a stranger and it is done by just sharing pane on the device after the sharing process is initiated. The basic requirement to perform this is a stable Wi-Fi connection and the proximity between the two Apple devices.

Mark Zuckerberg

05 Apr 2021

Mark Zuckerberg’s phone number leaks online, shows he uses Signal

As per a report, not only his phone number but other personal details like location, marriage details, birth date, and Facebook user ID was also leaked. This shocking development comes at a time when Facebook-owned WhatsApp is already facing backlash over its controversial privacy policies. Apart from Zuckerberg, Facebook's co-founders Chris Hughes and Dustin Moskovitz were also among the affected users whose data was leaked in the Facebook breach.

Personal Data Protection Bill

26 Mar 2021

Joint parliamentary committee gets an extension on data protection bill

The JCP was constituted in Lok Sabha in December 2019 and was expected to submit its report in the budget session. The panel has 19 members from Lok Sabha and nine from Rajya Sabha currently. The Personal Data Protection Bill seeks to regulate the use of individual data by the government and private companies.

09 Nov 2020

BigBasket customer, did you shop on this day in Oct? Data breach reported

BigBasket funded by Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba group. Cyble claimed data breach at BigBasket. BigBasket provides services in 25 cities.

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