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By Hera Rizwan The Indian government has plugged a longstanding cybersecurity leak, which exposed vast amounts of citizens' data for over two years, after persistent complaints and follow-ups by an independent security researcher. Sourajeet Majumdar, a security researcher who brought the breach to light, told Decode numerous documents containing personal information of citizens, such as Aadhaar numbers, COVID-19 vaccination records, and passport details, were publicly accessible online. "I became aware of the breach in 2022, following which I promptly notified the authorities and sought assist...
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By Hera Rizwan In a massive data breach, personally identifiable information of 81.5 crore Indians has been up on the dark web for sale, according to areport by US-based cybersecurity firm Resecurity. The stolen data includes Aadhaar and passport details, names, phone numbers, and both temporary and permanent addresses of crores of Indians. As reported by Resecurity, on October 9, an individual using the pseudonym "pwn0001" made a post on Breach Forums, a darknet crime forum, where they offered access to a dataset containing 81.5 crore records with information related to "Indian Citizen Aadhaa...
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By Archis Chowdhury On Monday, following reports of a massive data breach of users of the Co-WIN portal through a Telegram bot, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) reassured users of the platform, and stated that Co-WIN user data was safe. "Co-WIN portal of Health Ministry is Completely Safe with safeguards for Data Privacy," the statement added. However, it failed to address the various allegations raised by media outlets and social media users who claim to have used the bot, and have provided evidence in the form of screenshots containing private data to back their claim. On Su...
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By Vipul Kumar On May 16, a Twitter account @Cyber_Huntss posted a tweet claiming a data leak from the Zivame website, an online shopping portal for women’s lingerie. The tweet said that 1.5 million Hindu girls’ information including names, contacts, and addresses had been leaked. It further alleged that these details have been given to Muslims. A screenshot was attached to the tweet, hiding the names of two individuals whose information was allegedly released. The user also tagged Kapil Mishra, a Bharatiya Janata Party Leader, and stated that he had shared the details with him. The tweet has ...
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By Inkeshaf Ahmed The Cyberabad Police in Hyderabad, on April 1, made arrests in a cybercrime involving the stealing, holding and selling personal and confidential data of 66.9 crore individuals and organisations belonging to 24 states and eight metropolitan cities. The details of this major data breach was tweeted by the police. According to the police, the accused was operating through a website called 'InspireWebz' based in Faridabad, Haryana, and was selling the database to clients. The data involved those of ed-tech organisations such as Byjus and Vedantu, major organisations like GST, ro...
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Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) is at the center of another hacking incident, and this time, they stole the personal data of more than 533 million users. The hackers posted the information in a low-level hacking forum, according to Insider. Q4 2020 hedge fund letters, conferences and more Facebook users' data posted on hacking forumThe information that was exposed includes that of 32 million U.S. users, 11 million U.K. users and 6 million Indian users. The data includes Facebook IDs, full names, phone numbers, birthdates, locations and bios. Some users also had their email addresses leaked. Insider l...
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FinCEN leaked documents involving about $2tn of transactions have revealed how some of the world’s biggest banks have allowed criminals to move dirty money around the world.Q2 2020 hedge fund letters, conferences and moreThe FinCEN files are more than 2,500 documents, most of which were files that banks sent to the US authorities between 2000 and 2017. They raise concerns about what their clients might be doing.These documents are some of the international banking system's most closely guarded secrets and they were leaked to Buzzfeed News and shared with a group that brings together investigat...
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