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DoorDash confirms data breach through phishing, customers' data exposed

Online delivery giant DoorDash has confirmed that it has been hit by a data breach, which has affected several customers and merchants

Twitter fixes security bug that exposed at least 5.4 million accounts

Twitter has fixed a security bug that exposed data of at least 5.4 million accounts on its platform that were put up for sale on the Dark Web

Twitter breach exposes anonymous account owners to identity compromise

A vulnerability in Twitter's software that exposed an undetermined number of owners of anonymous accounts to potential identity compromise last year

Private banks reported most data breaches in 2018-22: Parliament told

Attacks caused loss of business and personal data, says junior finance minister

Cyberattack 'illuminates' shaky state of student privacy in the US

Experts say attack on Illuminate Education, a leading provider of student-tracking software, amounts to a warning for industry

Cost for data breaches averaged Rs 17.6 cr in 2022, highest ever: IBM study

Industrial companies paid most for cyberattacks as 'threat magnitude' grows

T-Mobile to pay US customers $350 mn in settlement over massive data breach

In the proposed settlement, T-Mobile also agreed to spend an extra $150 million on cybersecurity through the end of 2023.

T-Mobile agrees to pay $350 mn in data breach affecting 77 mn users

Telecommunications company T-Mobile has agreed to pay $500 million to settle a class-action lawsuit in a 2021 data breach that impacted nearly 76.6 million users' data in the US

China's 'Didi Global' fined $1.2 billion for data violations since 2015

China's internet watchdog on Thursday fined ride-hailing firm Didi Global more than 8 billion yuan ($1.2 billion) following an investigation into the company's cybersecurity practices. The probe found Didi violated China's network security law, data security law and a law protecting personal information, the Cyberspace Administration of China said in a statement. A separate statement explaining the fine said Didi's illegal operations had brought serious national security risks, affecting the country's information infrastructure and data security. Didi's chairman Cheng Wei and president Jean Liu were fined 1 million yuan ($148,000) each as they were held responsible for the company's violations, regulators said. Didi's violations of laws and regulations are serious, and in light of the network security review, they should be severely punished, the statement read. Didi illegally collected nearly 12 million screenshots and 107 million pieces of passengers facial recognition data and

Chinese Premier stresses data security after breach affected 1bn residents

Rattled at the alleged data leak of nearly 1 billion residents, China premier Li Keqiang has stressed data security, calling on government bodies to 'defend information security', the media reported on Friday.

Over 7 in 10 Indian firms suffered from ransomware attack last year

Seventy-eight per cent of the Indian organisations that had data encrypted paid the ransom to get their data back, even if they had other means of data recovery, such as backups

6 in 10 Asia-Pacific firms saw 1 data breach in last 12 months: Report

Organisations in the Asia-Pacific region took an average of 33 days to find and eradicate an attack and 11 days to recover from an attack -- totalling 44 days, according to Forrester

Data breach: Business models of payment platforms under RBI scrutiny

Seeks info on lending ops after cases of data breach

Online survey finds respondents blame telecom firms, banks for data breach

Most people share their financial data share their financial information with multiple organisations: from companies to the government

Privacy, data breach related searches up more than 20% in 2021: Google

Over the past two years, millions of people throughout Asia-Pacific have started using the Internet for the first time, lifting the region's online population to more than 2.5 billion

Red Cross: Hack exposes personal data on 5,15,000 vulnerable people

The International Committee of the Red Cross says hackers broke into servers hosting its data and gained access to personal, confidential information on more than a half-million vulnerable people

Google hit with 150 million euro French fine for cookie breaches

Meta Platforms' Facebook was also fined 60 million euros for the same reason, the CNIL said

Data breach at CDSL's KYC arm exposed 43.9 mn investors' details: CyberX9

A vulnerability at a CDSL subsidiary, CDSL Ventures Limited, has exposed personal and financial data of over 4 crore Indian investors twice in a period of 10 days, according to startup CyberX9.

2022 to see large scale data breaches, malware on mobile phone to grow

Data breaches and cyber attacks are expected to grow to large scale with the adoption of digitisation by both businesses as well as consumers, Israel-based cyber security firm Check Point said

Hackers access data of 79,400 customers of Singaporean mobile operator

A local mobile operator and internet service provider in Singapore on Friday said that hackers have accessed the personal data of its 79,400 subscribers