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    • Over 120 crore KYC records and private files exposed in AI app data leak

      A data exposure linked to two AI-powered apps has revealed how loosely some platforms handle identity documents, personal images, and user trust.

    • Cloudflare denies hosting sites linked to data leak at India's Star Health

      The statement comes after the company was made party to an Indian lawsuit filed by Star Health last week, in which the insurer alleged that Cloudflare hosted the websites in question.

    • UIDAI and CERT-In probe potential Aadhaar data leak from websites, may take action

      A simple Google search recently exposed websites leaking citizens' Aadhaar details, raising alarms about data privacy and security as India prepares to enforce its new Digital Personal Data Protection Act.

    • Personal data of 7.5 million Boat customers allegedly leaked on dark web

      A hacker named ShopifyGUY claims to have leaked the data on dark web. The leaked data includes names, email IDs, phone numbers, and customer IDs of Boat customers.

    • Delhi Police arrests four people accused for selling personal details on dark web

      The data sold was leaked from the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR).

    • Taj Hotels suffers data breach, exposes information of 1.5 million customers

      According to a media report, a bad actor going by the handle, "Dnacookies" has demanded a sum of $5,000 (about Rs. 4.16 lakh) as ransom for the full dataset

    • Just trying to recover my investment, says dark web threat actor selling 815 million Indians' database

      Pwn0001 who is selling sensitive details of Indian citizens on a dark web website said that he has not hacked any database, but bought it from another dark web forum last year

    • Sony confirms data leak affecting nearly 7000 employees

      The data includes personally identifiable information of US-based employees, and Sony says it will provide credit monitoring services.

    • AI researchers from Microsoft accidentally expose 38 terabytes of internal data

      The data included personal backups of Microsoft employees, personal data, passwords and private keys to internal Microsoft messages

    • Reddit hackers threaten to leak 80GB of data, demand API changes and $4.5 million in ransom

      Ransomware group BlackCat has claimed responsibility for the hack and claim to have 80GB of compressed data.

    • In massive data breach, details of 16.8 crore citizens, defence staff leaked, gang held: Cyberabad Police

      The accused persons were found selling more than 140 different categories of information, which include sensitive information such as details of defence personnel and the mobile numbers of citizens and NEET students, among others, Cyberabad Police Commissioner M Stephen Raveendra told reporters on Thursday.

    • TikTok bans: What the evidence says about security and privacy concerns

      Building a profile from user data to enable targeted phishing attacks on sensitive government accounts is plausible, however, there is no evidence that social media applications like TikTok has been used for this purpose.

    • Salman Khan, Sundar Pichai, 40 crore others' Twitter data up on sale on dark web: Report

      The hackers urged Elon Musk and Twitter to buy the data exclusively from them to avoid paying $2.76 million in breach fines.

    • Defence body warns of data breaches and ransomware attacks, advises staff to follow CERT-In guidelines

      The Controller General of Defence Accounts said that Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) has issued a set of guidelines on how to avoid data breaches, which it urged employees to follow.

    • WhatsApp Data Leak: Phone numbers of 500 million users up for sale, says report

      The database contains phone numbers from 84 different countries

    • Toyota says information on about 296,000 users of its T-Connect service leaked

      Toyota said 296,019 email addresses and customer numbers of those using T-Connect, a telematics service that connects vehicles via a network, were potentially leaked.

    • Moneycontrol Selects: Top stories this afternoon

      Our specially curated package of the most interesting articles of the day will help you stay at the top of your game.

    • Hackers claim theft of police info in China’s largest data leak

      The person or group claiming the attack has offered to sell more than 23 terabytes of stolen data from the database, including names, addresses, birthplaces, national IDs, phone numbers and criminal case information, according to an anonymous post on an online cybercrime forum last week.

    • NW18 Exclusive | Vijay Shekhar Sharma denies report of Paytm Payments Bank leaking data to Chinese firms

      "It is false to assume that the bank is sharing any data with Chinese or any other foreign entities," Paytm CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma said.

    • Health Ministry, security researchers deny CoWin data breach affecting 150 million Indians

      While assuring that the data is safe and secure, the government said that it has asked the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team to investigate the issue

    • Financial data of 3.3 lakh Indian cryptocurrency users potentially leaked to dark web: Report

      The company BuyUCoin on the other hand has denied the breach and said it had conducted “routine testing with dummy data” in mid-2020.

    • Donor data from PM Narendra Modi's personal website leaked on dark web: Report

      The leaked data includes personally identifiable information of over 5,74,000 users, with over 2,92,000 people who made donations to the PM's National Relief Fund through PM Modi's personal website, Narendramodi.in.

    • Economic Survey | Proposed citizen’s data framework is about public welfare, private profit and puts India at risk

      Allowing the private sector access to select databases for commercial use can be fraught with risks

    • Policy | India needs to closely evaluate Huawei

      India needs to develop the capability to check hardware equipment sold by Chinese companies. This is because it is possible to create back doors in smartphones and other hardware equipment for surveillance.

    • Reporter’s Take | Top aide of Paytm CEO held for alleged extortion

      The fact that company insiders were able to access the personal and financial details of the Paytm founder raises the question of whether the data harvested by private companies as a part of the e-KYC process stands compromised.

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