Page 2 - Data Breach

Data breach cost for Indian organisations up 39% since 2020: IBM report

AI, automation play 'significant role' in accelerating organisations' ability to identify breaches

Average cost of data breaches in India hits $2.18 million: RBI report

BFSI sector, governed by well-defined regulations, is relatively protected from such attacks

India's average data breach costs hit $2.18 mn in 2023, up 28% since 2020

Phishing is the most prevalent form of cyberattack in India, accounting for about 22% of incidents, followed by incidents involving stolen or compromised credentials at 16%

CERT-In reported possible intrusion, data breach at BSNL on May 20: Govt

The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) had reported possible intrusion and data breach at state-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) on May 20, 2024, Parliament was informed on Wednesday. An Inter Ministerial Committee (IMC) has been constituted to conduct an audit of the telecom networks and suggest remedial measures for prevention of data breaches in the telecom networks, Minister of State for Communications Pemmasani Chandra Sekhar said in a written reply in the Lok Sabha. To a question on data breach in BSNL, the Minister informed that Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) reported possible intrusion and data breach at BSNL on May 20, 2024. "The same was analysed and found that one File Transfer Protocol (FTP) server was having the data similar to the sample data shared by CERT-In. No breach into the Home Location Register (HLR) of the telecom network has been reported by the equipment manufacturer, hence no service outage in BSNL's network," he ...

Disney's Slack under attack: Hacktivists expose chat data on artist rights

Hacktivist group NullBulge accessed Disney's network through a compromised video game mod installed by a developer. Unlike typical hackers, the group appears to be uninterested in financial gains

Data from around 109 mn US customer accounts illegally downloaded: AT&T

The U.S. telecom company said the FBI is investigating and at least one person has been arrested after AT&T call logs were copied from its workspace on a third-party cloud platform

Has Airtel's customer database been breached by hackers? Company says this

A hacker had posted on X that data of nearly 375 million Airtel customers, including phone numbers, email addresses, and Aadhaar numbers, were supposedly for sale on the dark web

OpenAI's internal design details stolen in hacker breach last year

The hacker lifted details from discussions in an online forum where employees talked about OpenAI's latest technologies

BSNL data breach exposes 278 GB of sensitive telecom info, twice in 6 mts

A threat actor has claimed to have obtained sensitive data, which includes international mobile subscriber identity numbers, SIM card specifics, home location register data, and security keys

Boat suffers data breach: Personal data of 7.5 mn users leaked on dark web

The threat actor has put out around 2 Gigabytes of personally identifiable information (PII) of boAt users on dark web forums, claimed the reports

Data of 7.5 mn boAt customers leaked on dark web: Forbes India report

The personal data of 7.5 million boAt customers is a being sold at just two euros on the dark web

Financial services firm WeRize becomes the victim of a data breach

No impact on business operations

EPFO data breach in 2018 linked to Chinese cyber agency, probe reveals

When news of the purported breach initially surfaced in 2018, the EPFO denied that its systems were compromised

Govt pension portal for defence personnel SPARSH suffers data breach

The digitised pension processing system, SPARSH, offers online pension-related facilities to over 3 million pensioners from 50 organisations

Threat actor breaches BSNL server database, puts up dataset on dark web

State-owned telecom operator BSNL suffered a data breach as a threat actor released a dataset containing 32,000 lines of data, including sensitive details of landline users, on a dark web forum

Probing data breach claim, no current security issue detected: Tata's IHCL

Tata group hospitality firm Indian Hotels Company Ltd on Thursday said it is investigating claims of a data breach, but asserted there is no suggestion of any current or ongoing security issue. According to a media report, there has been a personal data breach of 15 lakh users from the Taj Hotel database, which is available on the dark web for purchase at USD 5,000. "We have been made aware of someone claiming possession of a limited customer data set which is of non-sensitive nature," Indian Hotels Company Ltd (IHCL) spokesperson said in a statement. Asserting that safety and security of customers' data is of paramount importance to the company, the spokesperson said, "We are investigating this claim and have notified the relevant authorities." The spokesperson further said, "We continue to monitor our systems and there is no suggestion of any current or ongoing security issue or impact on business operations." IHCL runs a number of hospitality properties under the Taj, SeleQtion

Breach alert: Key steps to verify if your data has been compromised

Lock up Aadhaar biometric; in future keep a close tab on SMS inbox, financial statements, credit report

In a first, Morgan Stanley fined for UK Energy trading WhatsApp breach

The fine is the first issued by Ofgem under legal requirements to archive communications linked to wholesale energy trading, the regulator said

Indian organisations' cost of data breach at record high: Report

Cost of detecting and fixing cyberattacks has increased 45% sine 2020, it says

Data protection bill could cap penalty for data breach at Rs 250 crore

The earlier draft has stipulated that in the case of non-compliance, a penalty of up to Rs 500 crore could be imposed