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Cabinet Approves Data Protection Bill; This Is How It Will Protect Your Data | Details | In Focus

Today, the Union Cabinet has approved the digital data protection bill. The bill is designed to protect the data of Indian citizens. It will be tabled during the monsoon session for parliamentary approval. As an internet user, your personal data is collected, sorted, and used by apps and websites you use and visit. If not protected by law, this data could be misused by businesses. To prevent data misuse, and offer citizens resolution in case of breaches this law was necessary.

6 Jul 2023
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Massive CoWIN Data Breach! Aadhaar, PAN Card Info Of Indians Leaked | Report

Personal data of Indian citizens has been leaked online. If claims made in a shocking report by Fourth News are found to be true, this will be the biggest data breach in recent times.A shocking report by Fourth News claimed that personal data of Indian citizens including their Aadhaar card, and Pan details are available on messaging platform Telegram.

12 Jun 2023
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India To Probe Breach Of Privacy Allegations Against WhatsApp

The Centre announced today that it will investigate the claim that WhatsApp improperly accessed the microphone on users' devices. This after an engineer for Twitter alleged earlier this week that WhatsApp had been utilising his microphone while he was asleep. The Indian government also took note of the matter, Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar said that the matter will be looked into.

10 May 2023
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Data protection bill: Government can access personal data under certain circumstances, says minister

The government can access to personal data is possible only in exceptional situations, Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar has said.

1 min read27 Nov 2022
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IRCTC withdraws tender to monetise customer data over privacy concerns

After privacy concerns had been raised, IRCTC withdrew a tender for hiring consultant to monetise passenger data.

2 min read27 Aug 2022
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Edureka's database breached, 2 million user records potentially at risk

The Bengaluru-based startup allegedly left a server exposed without any password protection putting personal data of its users at risk

3 min read30 Sep 2020
Companies

Delivery startup Dunzo suffers data breach, numbers, emails leaked

No payment information, like credit or debit cards etc. has been compromised, says CTO Mukund JhaThe company also sent emails to its users informing them about the data breach, stating that it has secured its databases, rotated access tokens and changed all passwords

1 min read11 Jul 2020
Technology

Indian companies suffered highest domain name system attacks in 2020

The cost of the attacks in the country decreased by 6.08% to ₹5.97 crores27% of companies in India lost sensitive customer information in data breaches due to DNS attacks compared to 16% globally

2 min read17 Jun 2020
News

Biggest card breach of all time: 30 million debit, credit card details up for sale online

Joker’s Stash, a notorious online marketplace, claimed it had data from 30 million cards of WaWa customers, according to a reportWaWa said it was 'aware of reports of criminal attempts to sell come customer payment card information'

1 min read29 Jan 2020
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Lata Mangeshkar admitted to ICU of Breach Candy Hospital

Lata Mangeshkar was brought to hospital at about 2 am. She is critical and in ICUThe legendary singer was facing breathing difficulties

1 min read11 Nov 2019
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