The Internet Archive, a digital library, was the target of a ‘catastrophic’ cyber attack on Thursday, leaving the site defaced and offline. Brewster Kahle, the founder of the San Francisco-based nonprofit, confirmed that a series of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks began on Tuesday, disrupting the site’s services and compromising the data of millions of users.Users…
Star Health customers’ data is available on Telegram, a hacker claims. According to an IANS report, the hacker has put the entire 7.24TB data belonging to over 3.1 crore customers for open sale on a website for $150,000 (approx. Rs 57.5 lakh). The insurance company has confirmed the cyber attacks stating that a thorough forensic…
CHENNAI: The chief information security officer (CISO) of Star Health Insurance was behind the company’s recent massive customer data breach, claimed a hacker who has put the data on sale on his website. The hacker, identifying as xenZen, said that CISO provided the API access to the entire customer data, and posted a video showing…
US telecom giant, Comcast has confirmed that a data breach involving some of its customers’ information occurred in February 2024. The company revealed the incident following a recent court filing in Maine.How the data breach happenedAccording to the filing, the data breach originated from a ransomware attack targeting Financial Business and Consumer Solutions (FBCS), a…
ICICI Bank has blocked credit cards of 17,000 new customers after their data was reportedly exposed and reached “wrong users”. The bank said that it is issuing new cards to the customers.An ICICI Bank spokesperson told news agency IANS about 17,000 credit cards that were issued in the past few days “were erroneously mapped in…
A hacker group has claimed that it has gained access to the traffic police website and has the ability to change to “paid” the status of challans issued to individuals. The Delhi Police is investigating a suspected data breach.According to a report by news agency PTI, a hackers group called KillSec posted messages on its…
