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Revolut Customers Hit by Data Exposure From Fake Government Email
Revolut said a limited number of customers were affected after an unauthorised party used a legitimate government agency email domain to submit fraudulent information requests. The exposed data may include identity documents, contact details, selfie authentication images, account statements, and transaction history. Revolut said its systems and cus...
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Israel’s Bits of Gold Suffers Data Breach Affecting 200,000 Customers
Israeli crypto brokerage Bits of Gold has disclosed a data breach that potentially exposed personal information belonging to around 200,000 customers. The company said a hacker accessed a third-party data analytics system containing names, national identification numbers, contact details, bank information, IP addresses and public wallet addresses. ...
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Average Data Breach Cost Up 16% To Rs 25.5 Crore In India: IBM Report
The data breach in India also grew in scale, with 39,500 records compromised on average in 2026, as against 38,200 in 2025, IBM said in its report.
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"Incorrect, Unverified": DRDO Denies Reports Of Data Breach
According to reports carried by a few news outlets, a suspected data breach has hit the DRDO, with a threat actor allegedly attempting to sell a large tranche of data on the dark web.
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"Core System Uncompromised": Bank Of Baroda After Dark Web Data Leak Report
In an official statement, the bank clarified that the breach involved a single employee's email account rather than its main banking infrastructure.
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Nuclear Body Underplays Concerns Over Data Breach At India's Largest Reactor
A ransomware group has posted files linked to the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant on the dark web, Reuters had earlier reported.
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ICAI Denies Student Records, Exam Data Breach; Warns Against Rumours
The institute labeled viral posts about hacked examination data as fake and urged reliance on official updates.
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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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Revolut Customers Hit by Data Exposure From Fake Government Email
Revolut said a limited number of customers were affected after an unauthorised party used a legitimate government agency email domain to submit fraudulent information requests. The exposed data may include identity documents, contact details, selfie authentication images, account statements, and transaction history. Revolut said its systems and cus...
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Israel’s Bits of Gold Suffers Data Breach Affecting 200,000 Customers
Israeli crypto brokerage Bits of Gold has disclosed a data breach that potentially exposed personal information belonging to around 200,000 customers. The company said a hacker accessed a third-party data analytics system containing names, national identification numbers, contact details, bank information, IP addresses and public wallet addresses. ...
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Average Data Breach Cost Up 16% To Rs 25.5 Crore In India: IBM Report
The data breach in India also grew in scale, with 39,500 records compromised on average in 2026, as against 38,200 in 2025, IBM said in its report.
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"Incorrect, Unverified": DRDO Denies Reports Of Data Breach
According to reports carried by a few news outlets, a suspected data breach has hit the DRDO, with a threat actor allegedly attempting to sell a large tranche of data on the dark web.
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"Core System Uncompromised": Bank Of Baroda After Dark Web Data Leak Report
In an official statement, the bank clarified that the breach involved a single employee's email account rather than its main banking infrastructure.
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Nuclear Body Underplays Concerns Over Data Breach At India's Largest Reactor
A ransomware group has posted files linked to the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant on the dark web, Reuters had earlier reported.
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ICAI Denies Student Records, Exam Data Breach; Warns Against Rumours
The institute labeled viral posts about hacked examination data as fake and urged reliance on official updates.
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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.
