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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday demanded a probe by the Centre into the "snooping" on activists, journalists and politicians, alleging that the Union government was "fully aware" of the security breach on messaging platform WhatsApp. (Photo: File)

Govt was fully aware of snoopgate, want thorough probe: Mamata Banerjee

Countering chief minister's remarks, BJP general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya said it is habit of Mamata Banerjee govt to spy on others.

03 Nov 2019 9:53 AM

In a response to government’s claims about not informing regarding a privacy breach on the messaging app, Whatspp said the company had warned Indian authorities in September that 121 Indians were targets of a massive snoop through an Israeli spyware that broke into phones through the Facebook-owned app, said sources. (Photo: File)

In second alert, WhatsApp informed breach of 121 Indians: sources

This was the second alert after May which was sent by WhatsApp to the Indian authorities about the privacy breach.

03 Nov 2019 9:19 AM

The search operation by the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) for four missing persons entered the fifth day here on Sunday in the wake of a breach in Tiware Dam which has claimed 19 lives. (Photo: ANI)

Tiware Dam breach: Search operation enters fifth day for 4 missing persons

The death toll climbed to 19 after one more body was recovered during the search operation on Friday.

07 Jul 2019 11:42 AM

'One more body was recovered this morning. A total of 19 bodies have been recovered so far. We are doing a continuous search operation,' NDRF Inspector Mahesh Kumar said. (Photo: ANI)

Tiware Dam Breach: Death toll reaches 19, search op to trace missing underway

The Tiware dam developed a breach on July 3 due to heavy rains whch caused a flood-like situation in seven downstream villages.

05 Jul 2019 11:44 AM

Facebook, Instagram's parent company, revealed last month that the unencrypted passwords of hundreds of millions of users had been stored, putting the number of Instagram users affected in the tens of thousands.

Millions of Instagram passwords stored in readable format: Facebook

Facebook has announced a series of moves to tighten handling of data.

19 Apr 2019 9:34 AM

Facebook said there is no evidence its employees abused access to this data. But thousands of employees could have searched them. The company said the passwords were stored on internal company servers, where no outsiders could access them. Even so, some privacy experts suggested that users change their Facebook passwords.

FB confirms passwords stored in plain text, promises robust security ahead

By storing passwords in readable plain text, Facebook violated fundamental computer-security practices.

22 Mar 2019 1:18 PM

Facebook left millions of passwords readable by employees

By storing passwords in readable plain text, Facebook violated fundamental computer-security practices.

22 Mar 2019 10:42 AM

The breach was first discovered in December after an employee noticed a large number of spam emails sent from their account.

Vermont Hospital email hack: 72,000+ accounts exposed

Affected patients received letters from the hospital earlier this week.

22 Mar 2019 10:32 AM

The passwords were accessible to as many as 20,000 Facebook employees and dated back as early as 2012, cyber security blog KrebsOnSecurity, which first reported said in its report.

Facebook glitch that exposed millions of user passwords to employees fixed

Facebook said the issue was discovered in January as part of a routine security review.

22 Mar 2019 10:11 AM

The company can access data in some cases even when the user is not signed into Facebook or does not have a Facebook account. (Photo: AP)

Official orders probe into Facebook access to data from other apps

Several apps share sensitive user data including weight, blood pressure and ovulation status with Facebook.

24 Feb 2019 10:57 AM

Session replay technology is abusing the iOS platform which can put the user data into a vulnerable spot.

Shocking! Popular apps found secretly recording iPhone screens

A shocking investigation reveals that popular travel apps are recording the screen of iPhone users.

07 Feb 2019 12:05 PM

Article 33 of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation states that a personal data breach must be referred to the commissioner within 72 hours after becoming aware of it, and sets out the amount and type of information that must be supplied with the notification.

Twitter under investigation for privacy rules breach

The DPC has this week opened a new statutory inquiry into the latest data breach it received from Twitter on 8 January, 2019.

26 Jan 2019 12:09 PM

The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the biggest shake-up of data privacy laws in more than two decades, came into force in May.

Google fined $57 million for privacy breach

Google lacked transparency and clarity in the way it informs users about its handling of personal data.

22 Jan 2019 10:05 AM

Data breaches will continue. And as long as we as netizens will continue to use simple and common passwords, the database will keep increasing. (Photo: Pixabay, representative image purpose only)

773 million email ID, passwords exposed. Were you part of it?

2,692,818,238 rows of email IDs and passwords are listed in a single database online.

19 Jan 2019 1:59 PM

The city’s data protection agency said the scope of the published personal data was enormous, and the potential consequences for affected individuals could be significant.

Hamburg working with Irish authorities to stop spread of German data

The Twitter account used to spread personal data has been deleted.

05 Jan 2019 9:42 AM

A preliminary analysis showed the data had been obtained through “wrongful use of log-in information for cloud services, email accounts or social networks”, Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said in a statement.

German politicians' data published online in massive breach

The ministry said it remained unclear if the breach was the result of a hack or a leak.

05 Jan 2019 9:37 AM

The hackers hid instructions in tweeted memes that secretly ordered infected devices to send information, including user names, screen images and other content, Trend Micro said.

Twitter says resolved issue that could have exposed user country code

Twitter observed a large traffic to the customer support site coming from individual internet IP addresses in China and Saudi Arabia.

18 Dec 2018 9:39 AM

Hackers over the last 18 months have conducted numerous breaches to gather intelligence, sabotage American systems, and steal intellectual property.

Chinese hackers targeting US Navy contractors with multiple breaches

Victims have included contractors of all sizes.

15 Dec 2018 9:51 AM

DPC was investigating to determine whether the company had complied with strict new EU privacy rules in its response to a number of breaches, including the one that exposed photos.

Facebook glitch exposes private photos of 6.8 million users

Facebook disclosed the photo glitch earlier on Friday.

15 Dec 2018 9:49 AM

A senior US intelligence official described the Chinese operation, known as “Cloudhopper,” as one of the most expansive and successful hacking schemes ever recorded. The pending charges were first described in a story by the Wall Street Journal on Friday.

US to reveal charges against Chinese hackers: sources

Breaches have allowed China to gather large quantities of data on a wide range of American businesses.

08 Dec 2018 10:08 AM

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