In a shocking incident reported, India’s largest bank – State Bank of India, leaked sensitive details such as bank balance and bank account number of million of its customers. The bank apparently forgot to secure a server that was hosting sensitive information of millions of its customers. The server was in one of its Mumbai installations.[Read More…]
Tag: Data Breach
Details of 100 mn users stolen in massive Quora data breach
San Francisco: Personal information of over 100 million Quora users including their name, email address and encrypted passwords have been compromised, the California-based popular question-and-answer platform said. “Questions and answers that were written anonymously are not affected by this breach as we do not store the identities of people who[Read More…]
Quora.com breached! Hackers stole 100 million users’ password data
In a year which has gone through multiple data breaches, Quora.com, a question-answer website, has shared the reports of a breach of as many as 100 million user passwords. In a blog post shared on by the company’s co-founder of the website Adam D’Angelo, it was said that on Friday,[Read More…]
Aadhaar data has been leaked, admits government
The Modi government for the first time has formally acknowledged that the personal identity of individuals, including Aadhaar number and other sensitive information, has been leaked. In a letter written by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology confirms the data breach as per a report in the New Indian[Read More…]
MS Dhoni’s Aadhaar info leaked; wife Sakshi slams IT minister
The former India cricket team captain, skipper MS Dhoni decided to get an Aadhaar Card, but things did not go the way he had planned. In fact, it turned into a privacy nightmare for the cricketer. Actually, on Tuesday, CSC e-governance services of India posted a photo in which Dhoni[Read More…]
Yahoo hit by the world’s largest data breach, over 500 million accounts affected
Yahoo on Thursday reported the largest data breach in history which will affect at least 500 million user accounts. Being cited as one of the largest, the web giant called on customers to change their passwords and institute other protective measures. This breach can have huge negative impacts on the[Read More…]