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Dashlane Password Manager Reveals Hackers Stole Some Encrypted Vaults Using Brute-Force Attacks
Dashlane, a password manager, has announced that on May 31, an “external party” launched a “brute force attack” against select user accounts. The tech firm claims that an attempt was made to breach Dashlane’s two-factor authentication protections to register “new devices” for existing user accounts, illegitimately gaining access to th...
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JEE Advanced 2026 Data Exposure Claim Surfaces; IIT Roorkee Acknowledges Cloud Storage Issue
IIT Roorkee confirmed the configuration issue and said the data was in read-only mode, preventing record alteration.
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Millions Of Hotel Guests' IDs Left Open Online In Massive Security Blunder
A hotel check-in technology platform used in Japan exposed more than one million passports, driving licences and selfie verification photos online after a cloud storage system was left publicly accessible.
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Meta Reportedly Halts Work With AI Partner Mercor After Data Breach Incident
Meta has reportedly paused all work with artificial intelligence (AI) recruitment company Mercor after the company was hit by a cyberattack last week. As per the report, the Menlo Park-based tech giant was among the biggest clients of the startup that hires subject matter experts to validate and run quality analysis on large language models’ outp...
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Patient Names Changed To Charlie Kirk In Major Medical Hack In New Zealand
Patients were labelled as dead, while some had their names changed to "Charlie Kirk" after New Zealand's MediMap platform was hacked.
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Instagram Denies Reports of Hacking and Data Breach, Says ‘Accounts Are Secure’
Instagram has denied suggestions of a data breach on its platform. On Sunday, the Meta-owned platform issued a statement highlighting that all accounts were secure and no data was stolen. The statement comes days after several users received an email asking them to change their passwords. The social media app says an issue allowed a third party to ...
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Pornhub User Data Reportedly Stolen by Hacker Group ShinyHunters, Threaten to Expose
Pornhub is reportedly facing an extortion attempt after hackers linked to the ShinyHunters group claimed to have stolen data of more than 200 million Premium users. The attackers have threatened to publish the data unless a Bitcoin ransom is paid. While samples shared with the media appear genuine, questions remain around how recent the data is and...
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Aadhaar Has Several Levels Of Protection, No Data Breach So Far: Centre
There has been no breach of Aadhaar card holders' data from the Unique Identification Authority of India's (UIDAI) database till date, Ministry of Electronics & IT said on Wednesday.
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Google Says Claims About Gmail Security Breach Impacting Millions Of Users "False"
A cybersecurity expert claimed that a massive 3.5-terabyte database containing around 183 million email credentials had surfaced online.
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Massive Data Breach Leaves 183 Million Email Credentials, Including Gmail Passwords, Exposed: Report
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a massive data breach involving tens of millions of leaked Gmail accounts. According to a report, the breach occurred in April of this year and was recently made public, with a record of over 183 million credentials in total. It not only includes email accounts, but also the passwords that are associated wi...
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British Retailer Harrods Hit By Cyberattack, Warns Customers Of Data Breach
Harrods, the luxury British department store, has warned some customers that their personal data may have been taken in a breach of its online systems.
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Ex-WhatsApp Executive Sues Meta Over Alleged Security Failures
A former top security executive at WhatsApp filed a federal lawsuit Monday alleging that parent company Meta systematically violated cybersecurity regulations and retaliated against him for reporting the failures.
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Google Must Pay $425 Million In Class Action Over Privacy, Rules Court
A federal jury determined on Wednesday that Alphabet's Google must pay $425 million in a class action lawsuit that accused it of continuing to collect data for millions of users who had switched off a tracking feature in their Google account.
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Warning To 2.5 Billion Gmail Users Over Data Breach-Linked Phishing Attacks
Google had confirmed that no passwords were stolen during the breach, but users are now at risk of phishing attempts.
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Workday Targeted By Hackers To Run Social Engineering Scams; “Some” Data Leaked
Workday, the HR solutions company, was recently attacked by threat actors. The company said that "some" information was compromised. However, the customer data was largely safe. Recently, hackers have been targeting tech firms to steal information.
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Dashlane Password Manager Reveals Hackers Stole Some Encrypted Vaults Using Brute-Force Attacks
Dashlane, a password manager, has announced that on May 31, an “external party” launched a “brute force attack” against select user accounts. The tech firm claims that an attempt was made to breach Dashlane’s two-factor authentication protections to register “new devices” for existing user accounts, illegitimately gaining access to th...
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JEE Advanced 2026 Data Exposure Claim Surfaces; IIT Roorkee Acknowledges Cloud Storage Issue
IIT Roorkee confirmed the configuration issue and said the data was in read-only mode, preventing record alteration.
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Millions Of Hotel Guests' IDs Left Open Online In Massive Security Blunder
A hotel check-in technology platform used in Japan exposed more than one million passports, driving licences and selfie verification photos online after a cloud storage system was left publicly accessible.
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Meta Reportedly Halts Work With AI Partner Mercor After Data Breach Incident
Meta has reportedly paused all work with artificial intelligence (AI) recruitment company Mercor after the company was hit by a cyberattack last week. As per the report, the Menlo Park-based tech giant was among the biggest clients of the startup that hires subject matter experts to validate and run quality analysis on large language models’ outp...
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Patient Names Changed To Charlie Kirk In Major Medical Hack In New Zealand
Patients were labelled as dead, while some had their names changed to "Charlie Kirk" after New Zealand's MediMap platform was hacked.
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Instagram Denies Reports of Hacking and Data Breach, Says ‘Accounts Are Secure’
Instagram has denied suggestions of a data breach on its platform. On Sunday, the Meta-owned platform issued a statement highlighting that all accounts were secure and no data was stolen. The statement comes days after several users received an email asking them to change their passwords. The social media app says an issue allowed a third party to ...
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Pornhub User Data Reportedly Stolen by Hacker Group ShinyHunters, Threaten to Expose
Pornhub is reportedly facing an extortion attempt after hackers linked to the ShinyHunters group claimed to have stolen data of more than 200 million Premium users. The attackers have threatened to publish the data unless a Bitcoin ransom is paid. While samples shared with the media appear genuine, questions remain around how recent the data is and...
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Aadhaar Has Several Levels Of Protection, No Data Breach So Far: Centre
There has been no breach of Aadhaar card holders' data from the Unique Identification Authority of India's (UIDAI) database till date, Ministry of Electronics & IT said on Wednesday.
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Google Says Claims About Gmail Security Breach Impacting Millions Of Users "False"
A cybersecurity expert claimed that a massive 3.5-terabyte database containing around 183 million email credentials had surfaced online.
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Massive Data Breach Leaves 183 Million Email Credentials, Including Gmail Passwords, Exposed: Report
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a massive data breach involving tens of millions of leaked Gmail accounts. According to a report, the breach occurred in April of this year and was recently made public, with a record of over 183 million credentials in total. It not only includes email accounts, but also the passwords that are associated wi...
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British Retailer Harrods Hit By Cyberattack, Warns Customers Of Data Breach
Harrods, the luxury British department store, has warned some customers that their personal data may have been taken in a breach of its online systems.
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Ex-WhatsApp Executive Sues Meta Over Alleged Security Failures
A former top security executive at WhatsApp filed a federal lawsuit Monday alleging that parent company Meta systematically violated cybersecurity regulations and retaliated against him for reporting the failures.
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Google Must Pay $425 Million In Class Action Over Privacy, Rules Court
A federal jury determined on Wednesday that Alphabet's Google must pay $425 million in a class action lawsuit that accused it of continuing to collect data for millions of users who had switched off a tracking feature in their Google account.
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Warning To 2.5 Billion Gmail Users Over Data Breach-Linked Phishing Attacks
Google had confirmed that no passwords were stolen during the breach, but users are now at risk of phishing attempts.
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Workday Targeted By Hackers To Run Social Engineering Scams; “Some” Data Leaked
Workday, the HR solutions company, was recently attacked by threat actors. The company said that "some" information was compromised. However, the customer data was largely safe. Recently, hackers have been targeting tech firms to steal information.
