According to a report in German news magazine Der Spiegel, phone numbers, emails & even passwords of Mike Waltz, Tulsi Gabbard, Pete Hegseth are accessible online.
Police have 'retrieved' personal data from accused, which they were 'trying to sell'. 'How they got data being probed,' says a Delhi Police officer. In ICMR case, CBI has 'taken up probe'.
Union minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar says Telegram bot was not accessing CoWIN database directly, but may be showing information from 'previously stolen data'.
Accused sold data to marketing firms & cybercriminals, had details of govt & defence personnel, PAN holders, high net-worth individuals & databases of online platforms, according to police.
In several meetings with IT ministry officials, MSMEs have requested a further deadline extension for compliance with fresh guidelines regarding data breaches.
Gathered info can be used for various purposes such as getting likes/dislikes of users and for targeted ads, according to the study by a graduate researcher at Georgia State University
There’s no dedicated data protection law in India yet, and your personal details could land up with anyone — even cybercrime modules that specialise in ‘phishing’ and ‘vishing’.
Netherlands-based firm Surfshark says 18 out of 100 Indians have been affected by data breaches since first recorded digital attack in 2004, indicating steady rise in cybercrime.
The draft Seeds Bill gets the big ideas right: universal registration, traceability, real penalties. To work for Punjab, it must get federal plumbing and farmer-facing details sorted.
Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.
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