Privacy watchdog demands Facebook tell Hong Kong users personal data was leaked
While the hack occurred in 2019, Ada Chung, privacy commissioner for personal data, notes information taken can ‘still be used’ by criminals
More than 3 million city residents among those whose usernames, email addresses, birth dates and other information were released over the weekend
Rajasthan COVID-19 news: Around 70 students test positive at IIT-Jodhpur
Rajasthan has 11,738 active COVID-19 cases, including 1,254 cases reported in the last 24 hours. File: A man is being tested for COVID-19 random testing who was not wearing a face mask in the market (ANI Photo)
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Updated: Apr 5, 2021, 08:56 AM IST
Nearly 65-70 people including students, teachers and staffs at Rajasthan s IIT Jodhpur have tested positive for COVID-19 so far and 60 of them are currently infected with the coronavirus, the authorities said on Sunday.
P Singh Deputy Chief Medical Health Officer (CMHO) said, Around March 11, some persons infected with COVID-19 had come here. They were from tribal villages Chandigarh, Gujarat and Jaipur. Then the cases started increasing.
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Leaked data includes phone numbers, birth dates, biographical details, and more.
The data was leaked back in 2019 but has now been posted online. Personal information on more than 500 million Facebook users leaked online.
Facebook has a poor track record when it comes to online privacy and securing users data. The company somehow finds itself in the online privacy debacle which is also why it s not the go-to social media platform for a lot of people. Now, Facebook is once again in the news as a user found personal data of over 500 million Facebook users in a hacking forum.
According to Alon Gal, co-founder and chief technical officer of cybersecurity firm Hudson Rock, personal data of 533 million Facebook users globally - including names, phone numbers and other details - was allegedly leaked online
If you re a Facebook user (and aren t we all these days?), you should definitely change your password today.
Several sources report that 533 million Facebook users personal data, including phone numbers, names, locations, and even email address, was recently found in a free database made available by hackers. According to Bloomberg, Facebook says the data was actually stolen in 2019 when a security issue was exploited, and that the vulnerability was fixed.
That s probably not much comfort to those whose data was made available in the database, which was exposed by two security experts over the weekend.
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