Data Hacked

The database includes information such as display names, sex, birth year, and some details about users genetic ancestry results.

Hackers have stolen the personal data of potentially millions of people from the Philippines's national health insurer, which has urged members to change their passwords after the "staggering" cyberattack.

Hunter Biden, US President Joe Biden's son, filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against Rudy Giuliani accusing Donald Trump's former lawyer of computer fraud for accessing personal data on his computer.

At 9pm on September 22 last year, a group of City of London police officers waited outside room M15 at the Travelodge Bicester, a one-star budget hotel in Oxfordshire, England, for the right moment to bust in. On the other side of the door was someone they believed to be behind two serious data hacks: one on Uber Technologies Inc. and the other an ...

A hydra-headed breach centered on a single American software maker has compromised data at about 600 organizations worldwide, according to cyber analyst tallies corroborated by Reuters. But more than two months after the breach was first disclosed by Massachusetts-based Progress Software, the parade of victims has scarcely slowed. The tallies show ...

Reddit hackers behind a breach of the company in February have threatened to leak 80GB of data stolen from the platform in February. The hacking group wants Reddit to pay a ransom of $4.5 million (roughly Rs. 37 crore) and reverse its controversial API policy changes aimed at third-party apps.

Ransom-seeking hackers have increasingly turned a greedy eye toward the world of managed file transfer (MFT) software, plundering the sensitive data being exchanged between organizations and their partners in a bid to win big payouts. Governments and companies globally are scrambling to deal with the consequences of a mass compromise made public on...

The US government has been hit in a global hacking campaign that exploited a vulnerability in widely used software but does not expect it to have significant impact, the nation's cyber watchdog agency said on Thursday. The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said several federal bodies had experienced intrusions following th...

Manish Maheshwari, former head of Twitter India has iterated the need for people to give decentralised apps (dApps) a fair chance after recent reports of YouTube account hacks targeting attacks. In conversation with Gadgets 360, Maheshwari points out that unlike traditional Web2 platforms where data is stored centrally, Web3 platforms via blockcha...

An Android malware called 'Daam' that infects mobile phones and hacks into sensitive data like callrecords, contacts, history and camera has been found to be spreading, the national cyber security agency has said in its latest advisory.

The hackers who claimed responsibility for a disruptive breach at financial data firm ION say a ransom has been paid, although they declined to say how much it was or offer any evidence that the money had been handed over. ION Group declined to comment on the statement.

IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw informed Rajya Sabha in a written reply that 50 government websites have been hacked in the year 2022-23. Union Minister informed the upper House on the question of the details of instances of hacking of Central Ministries/Departments and State Government websites since 2020, year-wise.

After identifying the source of the hack, it was fixed within 24 hours, the company said, adding that it believes the rest of its systems were not affected.

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...

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...

The database includes information such as display names, sex, birth year, and some details about users genetic ancestry results.

Hackers have stolen the personal data of potentially millions of people from the Philippines's national health insurer, which has urged members to change their passwords after the "staggering" cyberattack.

Hunter Biden, US President Joe Biden's son, filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against Rudy Giuliani accusing Donald Trump's former lawyer of computer fraud for accessing personal data on his computer.

At 9pm on September 22 last year, a group of City of London police officers waited outside room M15 at the Travelodge Bicester, a one-star budget hotel in Oxfordshire, England, for the right moment to bust in. On the other side of the door was someone they believed to be behind two serious data hacks: one on Uber Technologies Inc. and the other an ...

A hydra-headed breach centered on a single American software maker has compromised data at about 600 organizations worldwide, according to cyber analyst tallies corroborated by Reuters. But more than two months after the breach was first disclosed by Massachusetts-based Progress Software, the parade of victims has scarcely slowed. The tallies show ...

Reddit hackers behind a breach of the company in February have threatened to leak 80GB of data stolen from the platform in February. The hacking group wants Reddit to pay a ransom of $4.5 million (roughly Rs. 37 crore) and reverse its controversial API policy changes aimed at third-party apps.

Ransom-seeking hackers have increasingly turned a greedy eye toward the world of managed file transfer (MFT) software, plundering the sensitive data being exchanged between organizations and their partners in a bid to win big payouts. Governments and companies globally are scrambling to deal with the consequences of a mass compromise made public on...

The US government has been hit in a global hacking campaign that exploited a vulnerability in widely used software but does not expect it to have significant impact, the nation's cyber watchdog agency said on Thursday. The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said several federal bodies had experienced intrusions following th...

Manish Maheshwari, former head of Twitter India has iterated the need for people to give decentralised apps (dApps) a fair chance after recent reports of YouTube account hacks targeting attacks. In conversation with Gadgets 360, Maheshwari points out that unlike traditional Web2 platforms where data is stored centrally, Web3 platforms via blockcha...

An Android malware called 'Daam' that infects mobile phones and hacks into sensitive data like callrecords, contacts, history and camera has been found to be spreading, the national cyber security agency has said in its latest advisory.

The hackers who claimed responsibility for a disruptive breach at financial data firm ION say a ransom has been paid, although they declined to say how much it was or offer any evidence that the money had been handed over. ION Group declined to comment on the statement.

IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw informed Rajya Sabha in a written reply that 50 government websites have been hacked in the year 2022-23. Union Minister informed the upper House on the question of the details of instances of hacking of Central Ministries/Departments and State Government websites since 2020, year-wise.

After identifying the source of the hack, it was fixed within 24 hours, the company said, adding that it believes the rest of its systems were not affected.

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...

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...