The 2019 breach exposed the personal information of 533 million Facebook users across 157 countries through a technique known as "scraping." Attackers exploited a vulnerability in Facebook's contact ...

Facebook is to be sued in Europe over the major leak of user data that dates back to 2019 but which only came to light recently after information on more than 533 million accounts was found posted for ...

Customers of retail chain Wawa could be at risk of fraud following a data breach that compromised payment systems. Wawa, Inc. is a chain of convenience and fuel retail stores located in Pennsylvania, ...

Symantec, McAfee and IBM sold the most data loss prevention and endpoint protection tools through the channel during the third quarter of 2019. See how much money they earned and who else cracked the ...

This is the first of a two-part article by former central information commissioner Dr Madabhushi Sridhar Acharyulu, examining ...

It’s been an information con job. Companies lulled us into thinking we were simply connecting with our friends, finding our way around town, or locating the perfect sweater. While we were extolling ...

The Indian government’s Personal Data Protection Bill of 2019 (PDP Bill) was withdrawn in August 2022 after criticism from the opposition, tech giants and civil society. The government admitted the ...

The 2019 amendment had chipped away at the independence of the Central and State Information Commissions by allowing the govt to regulate their tenure and pay changes that gave the ruling ...

The Indian government has withdrawn its long-awaited Personal Data Protection Bill that drew scrutiny from several privacy advocates and tech giants who feared the legislation could restrict how they ...

A new law would give the country’s 1.3 billion people more power over data collected by companies but allow the government to exempt itself from the rules. By Vindu Goel MUMBAI, India — India is ...