Data breach

The $5 billion lawsuit was filed in 2020 in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California and covered "millions" of Google consumers, claiming damages of $5,000 per user or three times actual damages, depending on what was greater.

As per The Washington Post, three former senior US officials, who were among a dozen current and former US and Japanese officials interviewed, said that the hackers had deep, persistent access and appeared to be after anything they could get their hands on- plans, capabilities and assessments of military shortcomings.

Big Basket flaunted being at fourth number of most used passwords without realizing the list was based on cyber security incidents

Twitter has agreed to pay a USD 150 million fine after being accused of illegally selling private information, such as phone numbers, for targeted advertising

Hacker group claims that they have got access to over 3.8 billion phone numbers from Clubhouse servers, but their claim seems to be false

Hackers had announced on an infamous hackers' forum that they got access to the Domino's India servers and downloaded 13 TB of data

Earlier, WhatsApp had announced that its new controversial privacy policy has been deferred and it wont come into effect on May 15th.

On April 25, a hacker group identified as ShinyHunters allegedly released data of 20 million Big Basket users for free on a hacker forum.

Tata Communications denies data leak claimed by hackers. A representative reached out to OpIndia over the matter.

As per two posts by hackers on a hackers' forum, they have gained access to Tata Communications servers and sold them.