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Tata Electronics suffers massive data breach, leaked files allegedly include Apple and Tesla documents: Report
Tata Electronics has suffered a major cyber breach that reportedly exposed sensitive Apple and Tesla information. The attack has been claimed by the cyber-extortion group ‘World Leaks’, which…
Substack confirms Oct’25 data breach that resulted in personal information for users
Content publishing platform Substack has notified several of its users that their email addresses, phone numbers, and other internal metadata were accessed without authorization in a security incident…
Zoomcar reveals major data breach exposing personal data of 8.4 million users
Zoomcar, the Nasdaq-listed car rental company headquartered in Bengaluru, has confirmed a major data breach that exposed personal information of about 8.4 million users. The breach was detected…
Coinbase confirms data breach spanning months, affecting over 69,000 customers
Coinbase experienced a serious data breach over several months (from late December 2024 to May 2025) that compromised sensitive data of over 69,000 customers, the highly popular crypto…
UnitedHealth increases cyberattack victim estimate to 190 million: Report
Minnetonka-headquartered UnitedHealth has updated its estimate of users affected by the cyberattack in February 2024. The healthcare company, which provides health insurance and other medical services to a…
Chinese hackers now target US government agency that controls foreign investment: Report
Chinese cyber-surveillance campaigns against the United States appear to be on the rise, with reports indicating that Chinese hackers have now breached a key office within the US…
Security flaw in McDonald’s India delivery system exposed sensitive customer data: Report
McDonald’s Happy Meals might make you happy, but the latest finding could ruin the experience, especially in India, as the world’s largest fast food chain faces a major…
Samsung discloses massive year-long data breach that affected UK store customers
If you are a Samsung user from the UK who made a purchase from the company’s UK online store anytime between July 1, 2019 and June 30, 2020,…
18-year-old hacker claims responsibility for data breach at Uber
Recent times have seen data breaches become a rather common occurrence – and that in itself is alarming given the rising concerns about digital privacy. The latest enterprise…
Travel portal Cleartrip suffers data breach, hackers post stolen data for sale on the dark web
Once again, Flipkart-owned online travel aggregator Cleartrip has been the victim of a data breach. However, this time is unlike the hack in 2017, when the hacker group…
WeWork India fixes security lapse that exposed customers’ personal information
Flexible workspace solutions company WeWork India has fixed a security lapse that exposed wide range of personal data of customers, including e-mail addresses and selfies. The issue was…
Indian government’s NIC email system not affected by data breaches in Air India, Domino’s: MeitY
In the modern era where everything is digitized and the concept of privacy diminishes by the day, data breaches are becoming a matter of grave concern. Recently behemoths…
Fragomen, a law firm used by Google for I-9 employment verification, confirms data breach
In a notice to California’s Attorney General, law firm Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy has confirmed of a a data breach of employees at Google containing their…
One of India’s biggest diagnostic chains, Dr. Lal Pathlabs, exposed millions of patients’ data
With COVID-19 now infecting over 7 million Indians, the country has rapidly scaled its testing capacity. India is now conducting well over a million tests every day, and…
Yet another information breach at Marriott results in leaking of data for 5.2 million guests
In its second information breach in three years, global hospitality chain Marriott, has had the personal information of 5.2 million guests stolen from its system. The hotel chain…
Samsung confirms a data breach caused the weird ‘Find My Mobile’ notification
A few days back, Samsung users reported receiving a weird notification from the in-built “Find My Mobile” application, which is used to track a device in case it…
[UPDATE: Spicejet denies] Massive data breach at SpiceJet affects over 1.2 million passengers: Report
Data is the currency of the 21st century and thus, any company which puts its customers private data in jeopardy is seen as an outcast. One such example…
Customer support logs for over 250 million Microsoft users leaked, now fixed
There’s yet another major data breach story coming in, this time via Microsoft. Apparently, over the New Year, Microsoft exposed nearly 250 million Customer Service and Support (CSS)…
[UPDATE] More Facebook data found lying exposed on public servers
UPDATE [1:41 PM IST, April 4th, 2019] Facebook has announced that it has removed all of the data that was lying exposed on Amazon servers. Cultura Colectiva, the…
Over 770 million emails and 21 million passwords exposed in fresh data breach
Over the past year, we’ve grown accustomed to hacks and data breaches on the internet. Now we’re less than a month into 2019, and we’ve already been hit with…
Facebook says it only provided access to user data after explicit permission
The New York Times has once again called out Facebook Inc. regarding their breach of user data access. This has been an ongoining situation for over a couple…