data breach

10 October 2019, 04:11 AM

Yahoo had in 2017 announced that of all its users "nearly 3 billion in 2013" were impacted by a massive data breach.

Turkey fines Facebook over data breach of 280,000 users

3 October 2019, 06:21 PM

Ankara: Turkey on Thursday fined social media giant Facebook for over $281,000 for a data breach that exposed the personal information of...Read More

Over 419 million phone numbers exposed online

6 September 2019, 04:21 AM

The database included 133 million records of US-based Facebook users, 18 million records of UK users and more than 50 million records of ...Read More

British airways fined $ 236 million over data breach

By Asia News International

8 July 2019, 05:36 PM

The airlines is "surprised and disappointed" by the initial ruling, British Airways chairman Alex Cruz has said, as cited by Sputnik news...Read More

British Airways fined USD 236 million over data breach

8 July 2019, 08:07 AM

We intend to take all appropriate steps to defend the airline's position vigorously, including making any necessary appeals said BA chair...Read More

Travellers' images exposed in US data breach, reports suggest

By PTI

11 June 2019, 06:12 AM

Images of tens of thousands of travellers crossing the United States' border have been stolen from an immigration subcontractor in a data...Read More

Data breach could happen to you or me

26 May 2019, 12:02 AM

Mumbai: Apart from the other numerous threats lurking on the internet, the one abiding fear we have is that of ‘data breach’. One is alw...Read More

Aadhaar data breach report incorrect: UIDAI tells Delhi High Court

14 February 2019, 09:04 AM

New Delhi: The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) on Thursday told the Delhi High Court that reports regarding security bre...Read More

Google CEO Pichai faces house grilling

11 December 2018, 09:07 PM

Washington: Google’s CEO faces a grilling from US lawmakers on how the web search giant handled an alarming data breach and whether it ma...Read More

Quora hit by major security breach, data of 100 million users stolen

By FPJ Web Desk

4 December 2018, 06:23 AM

About 100 million Quora users were affected due to an unauthorised access to its system by an unknown third party. Vital information of u...Read More

Marriott faces USD 12 billion suits

3 December 2018, 07:03 PM

San Francisco: After customers in the US sued global hotel chain Marriott for exposing their data with one class-action lawsuit seeking $...Read More

Amazon hit with major data breach, names and emails of users’ leaked in ‘technical error’

22 November 2018, 02:26 AM

San Francisco: Amazon on Wednesday said that a website glitch accidentally exposed names and email addresses of some of the e-commerce gi...Read More

Gemalto drops report that claimed Aadhaar data breach

18 October 2018, 08:01 PM

New Delhi: Digital security firm Gemalto on Thursday withdrew its report which claimed that data breach incidences in India were the seco...Read More

Google to shut down social networking site ‘Google+’

9 October 2018, 05:25 AM

San Francisco: Internet giant Google has said it is shutting down the consumer version of its own social networking site Google+ due to l...Read More

British Airways says details of customers stolen in data breach involving 380,000 payment cards

7 September 2018, 03:44 AM

London: British Airways said Thursday that the personal and financial details of customers making bookings between August 21 and Septembe...Read More

E-commerce, social media companies may have to store data locally

30 July 2018, 07:20 PM

The government is also thinking of tightening scrutiny of mergers in the e-commerce sector so that even small deals that potentially dist...Read More

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg apologises to EU Parliament over data breach

23 May 2018, 03:02 AM

Brussels: Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg apologised to the European Parliament today and said the social media giant is taking steps to p...Read More

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