Data Leakage

Almost one in every two technology device user has lost data at least once in last five years, still 62 per cent respondents do not take full back-up of data, a survey commissioned by Western Digital said on Friday. In a survey of 1,102 device users, the study found cost has major deterrent in taking back-up of their data. "52 per cent respondents have lost the data at least once in last 5 years time. 45 per cent respondents have lost the data at least once in last 1 year time," the survey said. Highest number (56 per cent) of data loss has been due to the physical damage of the device, followed by system crash (52 per cent), losing of device (39 per cent), device stolen (30 per cent), virus (22 per cent), forgetting password (21 per cent) and accedental deletion (7 per cent). The survey found that most video bloggers (50 per cent) took full back-up of their data, followed by IT professionals (43 per cent), photographer (31 per cent) and student (30 per cent). "While there is high

Email marketing leader Mailchimp has admitted it was hacked and at least 133 customers' data was exposed

On December 28, the railways had submitted a data breach alert of the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (Cert-In) to IRCTC

As Elon Musk goes gaga over transforming Twitter, at least 5.4 million Twitter user records have been stolen via an internal bug and leaked online on a hacker forum

But it should provide the foundation over which you should be able to build any other regulation required for a particular sector, the minister said

Automaker Toyota has revealed that personal information of nearly 300,000 customers may have been exposed since July 2017

The report is the outcome of an analysis of more than 1,200 websites and over 12 billion requests that the Indusface AppTrana network received in August-September 2022

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

So far, more than 20 MSPs have been affected, said John Hammond, a cybersecurity researcher at Huntress Labs.

Recently, reports surfaced about a data leak affecting 150 million users registered on the Co-WIN portal had surfaced.

Fast food chain McDonald's has suffered a data breach in the US, South Korea and Taiwan, saying no customer financial information was leaked.

Facebook said a recently reported data leak affecting potentially 530 mn users stemmed from misuse of feature in 2019, and that the company had plugged the hole after identifying problem at the time

Most net users have at some time or the other used some service, which has been compromised. You can probe further to check what that data is

Gaming hardware vendor Razer has accidentally exposed personal information of over 100,000 gamers that was available for nearly a month for hackers to exploit

According to security researchers from pro-consumer website Comparitech, an unsecured database was behind this data breach

According to a report by cyber intelligence firm Cyble, the leaked data seems to have originated from a third party and not from the government system.

When you sell or exchange your smartphones even after pressing factory reset does not erase your crucial data and those can be easily recovered, says Stellar co-founder Director Manoj Dhingra