Data Breach

T-Mobile on Thursday said that it was probing a data breach, the second major cyberattack in two years, that may have exposed 37 million postpaid and prepaid accounts. The US telecom operator said it identified malicious activity on January 5 and contained it within a day, adding that basic customer data — such as name, billing address, email and...

Irish regulatory body has fined Meta an additional EUR 5.5 million (roughly Rs. 47.8 crore) for violating EU data protection regulations with its instant messaging platform WhatsApp. In its new decision, the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) found the group acted "in breach of its obligations in relation to transparency," the watchdog said in ...

Social media giant Meta has been fined an additional 5.5 million euros ($5.9 million) for breaches of EU data protection regulations by its instant messaging platform WhatsApp, Ireland's regulator announced Thursday.

Twitter Inc said on Wednesday that there was no evidence that data recently being sold online was obtained by exploiting a vulnerability in the company's systems.

Twitter users' data, including their email addresses, was leaked after the company was breached by hackers, according to security researcher Alon Gal, co-founder of Israeli cybersecurity-monitoring firm Hudson Rock. The email addresses of over 200 million users were posted to a hacking forum, and could lead to hacking, targeted phishing, and doxxin...

Toyota India, the company's Indian business unit, warned on Sunday that that firm may have exposed some customers' personal data in a data breach. The automaker said it has notified the relevant Indian authorities of the data breach at Toyota Kirloskar Motor. The firm previously warned that its T-Connect service potentially leaked about 296,000 pie...

Toyota Kirloskar Motor on Sunday reported a data breach in its system but said the extent of intrusion is being confirmed.

The Union Ministry of Railways has denied media reports about a potential breach of Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTCT) data, and said that the data breach was not from the IRCTC servers.

Private data of over 40 crore Twitter users has reportedly been hacked and put up for sale. According to a report, the data breach includes phone numbers and emails of prominent Twitter users like American politician Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, and a number of celebrities. The hacker is also reportedly attempting to extort T...

LastPass, a password management service, announced on Thursday that hackers stole encrypted copies of customer passwords and other sensitive data such as billing addresses, phone numbers and IP addresses. The announcement is the latest update from a breach that occurred in August.

Amazon on Tuesday reached a settlement with the EU in two antitrust investigations that probed the company's use of seller data and treatment of sellers while ranking offers for the "buy" box on its website. Under EU law, the US-based e-commerce giant could have faced a fine of up to 10 percent of its global annual turnover.

Meta was warned by the European Commission on Monday that it was likely breaching EU antitrust laws. The social media firm will face an investigation into whether it abused its dominant position and distorted competition in markets for online classified advertising. EU antitrust regulators last month were said to be drawing up charges against Meta ...

Microsoft on Thursday said it would allow European Union cloud customers to process and store parts of their data in the region from January 1, as part of the company's phased rollout of its “EU data boundary”. The company said that the changes will apply to Azure, Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365 and the company's Power BI platform, or all of its c...

The AIIMS Delhi cyberattack, which crippled the online services of Delhi's largest medical institute, originated from China, according to the FIR. Hackers breached five out of 40 physical servers, and the data from all five servers has now been successfully retrieved, senior officials from the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of I...

AIIMS data breach came up in Parliament this week, when Congress's Shashi Tharoor called for a thorough investigation and questioned the government

T-Mobile on Thursday said that it was probing a data breach, the second major cyberattack in two years, that may have exposed 37 million postpaid and prepaid accounts. The US telecom operator said it identified malicious activity on January 5 and contained it within a day, adding that basic customer data — such as name, billing address, email and...

Irish regulatory body has fined Meta an additional EUR 5.5 million (roughly Rs. 47.8 crore) for violating EU data protection regulations with its instant messaging platform WhatsApp. In its new decision, the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) found the group acted "in breach of its obligations in relation to transparency," the watchdog said in ...

Social media giant Meta has been fined an additional 5.5 million euros ($5.9 million) for breaches of EU data protection regulations by its instant messaging platform WhatsApp, Ireland's regulator announced Thursday.

Twitter Inc said on Wednesday that there was no evidence that data recently being sold online was obtained by exploiting a vulnerability in the company's systems.

Twitter users' data, including their email addresses, was leaked after the company was breached by hackers, according to security researcher Alon Gal, co-founder of Israeli cybersecurity-monitoring firm Hudson Rock. The email addresses of over 200 million users were posted to a hacking forum, and could lead to hacking, targeted phishing, and doxxin...

Toyota India, the company's Indian business unit, warned on Sunday that that firm may have exposed some customers' personal data in a data breach. The automaker said it has notified the relevant Indian authorities of the data breach at Toyota Kirloskar Motor. The firm previously warned that its T-Connect service potentially leaked about 296,000 pie...

Toyota Kirloskar Motor on Sunday reported a data breach in its system but said the extent of intrusion is being confirmed.

The Union Ministry of Railways has denied media reports about a potential breach of Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTCT) data, and said that the data breach was not from the IRCTC servers.

Private data of over 40 crore Twitter users has reportedly been hacked and put up for sale. According to a report, the data breach includes phone numbers and emails of prominent Twitter users like American politician Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, and a number of celebrities. The hacker is also reportedly attempting to extort T...

LastPass, a password management service, announced on Thursday that hackers stole encrypted copies of customer passwords and other sensitive data such as billing addresses, phone numbers and IP addresses. The announcement is the latest update from a breach that occurred in August.

Amazon on Tuesday reached a settlement with the EU in two antitrust investigations that probed the company's use of seller data and treatment of sellers while ranking offers for the "buy" box on its website. Under EU law, the US-based e-commerce giant could have faced a fine of up to 10 percent of its global annual turnover.

Meta was warned by the European Commission on Monday that it was likely breaching EU antitrust laws. The social media firm will face an investigation into whether it abused its dominant position and distorted competition in markets for online classified advertising. EU antitrust regulators last month were said to be drawing up charges against Meta ...

Microsoft on Thursday said it would allow European Union cloud customers to process and store parts of their data in the region from January 1, as part of the company's phased rollout of its “EU data boundary”. The company said that the changes will apply to Azure, Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365 and the company's Power BI platform, or all of its c...

The AIIMS Delhi cyberattack, which crippled the online services of Delhi's largest medical institute, originated from China, according to the FIR. Hackers breached five out of 40 physical servers, and the data from all five servers has now been successfully retrieved, senior officials from the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of I...

AIIMS data breach came up in Parliament this week, when Congress's Shashi Tharoor called for a thorough investigation and questioned the government