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California: Former Google engineer Linwei Ding charged with stealing AI trade secrets for Chinese companies

OpIndia Staff - 7 March, 2024

A former Google engineer was reportedly charged with stealing AI trade secrets for Chinese companies. 38-year-old Linwei Ding was arrested and charged with theft of trade secrets in California

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Rajasthan: Youth arrested for selling 4500 GB confidential information on dark web, along with military and govt information, IS and Taliban data also recovered

OpIndia Staff - 26 February, 2024

During the raid, the officials discovered over 90 million data belonging to US individuals, as well as a large amount of data belonging to the Islamic State and the Taliban on the dark web

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Social media giant Twitter to pay USD 150 million fine for selling user data for targeted advertisement

OpIndia Staff - 26 May, 2022

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

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CBI books Cambridge Analytica, alleged strategist of Congress for 2014 elections, over illegal harvesting of Facebook data in India

OpIndia Staff - 22 January, 2021

Along with Cambridge Analytica, CBI has filed case against another firm named Global Science Research Limited for Facebook data theft

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Chinese firm with military and communist party links caught collecting personal information of 2.4 million people globally, including 10,000 from India

Anurag - 14 September, 2020

Chinese firm Zhenhua caught spying, the curious case of Hybrid Warfare

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Ph.D. student in Singapore uses Linkedin to recruit govt US employees to collect Intelligence on behalf of Chinese officials, pleads guilty in court

OpIndia Staff - 27 July, 2020

The accused began working with China in 2015 and would initially solicit sensitive information from high-profile individuals in other Asian countries.

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“If we don’t act now CCP will erode our freedom”: Mike Pompeo pitches for a new “alliance of democracies” to tackle China

OpIndia Staff - 24 July, 2020

China ripped off our prized intellectual property and trade secrets, US State Secretary Mike Pompeo tears into China

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TikTok is secretly accessing your iPhone’s clipboard: Report raises massive security concern about Chinese app snooping on users

OpIndia Staff - 27 June, 2020

Forbes noted that while TikTok had vowed to put an end to this 'invasive practice,' but it continued unabated as late as April.

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Personal data of top celebrities including Madonna, Lady Gaga, Priyanka Chopra breached after law firm representing them faces ransomware attack

OpIndia Staff - 12 May, 2020

Media and entertainment law firm Grubman Shire Meiselas & Sacks faced ransomware attack by REvil malware

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Online learning platform Unacademy hacked, details of 22 million users available for sale: Reports

OpIndia Staff - 7 May, 2020

Reportedly, the records include usernames, hashed passwords (SHA-256), date joined, last login date, email addresses, first and last names, account profile (staff member/a superuser), account status etc.

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