wordpress blog stats
Connect with us

Hi, what are you looking for?

Daily Digest Of Tech Policy News And Updates (April 19, 2021)

Malware

Bringing you quick updates on the tech space, policy making and digital rights from India and across the globe. Sensitive data of Domino's Pizza India users leaked online, researcher claims Yet another data breach. A cybersecurity researcher has claimed that credit card data of nearly 10 lakh users who've purchased Domino's Pizza online is being sold on the dark web. Alon Gal of Hudson Rock, who had recently flagged the Facebook data breach, has claimed that hackers are asking for nearly Rs 4 crore (USD $550,000) for a 13TB database containing more than 180 million order details, names, phone numbers, emails, addresses, payment details and a "whopping 1,000,000 credit cards". From the screenshots shared by Gal in his tweet, it seems the database includes the company's internal files from 2015–2021. Gal is not the only researcher to have flagged the breach. India-based Rajashekar Rajaharia has told IANS that he had alerted the Computer Emergency Response Team of India (CERT-In) about the Domino's breach on March 5. Domino's India, on its part, has admitted to a "security incident", but not to a data breach. Jubiliant Foodworks, which runs the pizza chain in India, told Gadgets360 that "[n]o data pertaining to financial information of any person was accessed and incident has not resulted in any operational or business impact". It added that the company does not store financial details or credit card data of its customers, and hence it has not been compromised. Top stories from MediaNama Exclusive: Hyderabad Police Wants To…

Please subscribe/login to read the full story.
Written By

Free Reads

News

In its submission, the Interior Ministry said the decision to impose a ban was "made in the interest of upholding national security, maintaining public...

News

Among other things, the security requirements include data encryption and regular review and updated access permissions to reflect personnel changes.

News

the NTIA had earlier sought comments on the risks, benefits, and potential policy related to dual-use foundation models for which the model weights are widely...

MediaNama’s mission is to help build a digital ecosystem which is open, fair, global and competitive.

Views

News

NPCI CEO Dilip Asbe recently said that what is not written in regulations is a no-go for fintech entities. But following this advice could...

News

Notably, Indus Appstore will allow app developers to use third-party billing systems for in-app billing without having to pay any commission to Indus, a...

News

The existing commission-based model, which companies like Uber and Ola have used for a long time and still stick to, has received criticism from...

News

Factors like Indus not charging developers any commission for in-app payments and antitrust orders issued by India's competition regulator against Google could contribute to...

News

Is open-sourcing of AI, and the use cases that come with it, a good starting point to discuss the responsibility and liability of AI?...

You May Also Like

News

Google has released a Google Travel Trends Report which states that branded budget hotel search queries grew 179% year over year (YOY) in India, in...

Advert

135 job openings in over 60 companies are listed at our free Digital and Mobile Job Board: If you’re looking for a job, or...

News

By Aroon Deep and Aditya Chunduru You’re reading it here first: Twitter has complied with government requests to censor 52 tweets that mostly criticised...

News

Rajesh Kumar* doesn’t have many enemies in life. But, Uber, for which he drives a cab everyday, is starting to look like one, he...

MediaNama is the premier source of information and analysis on Technology Policy in India. More about MediaNama, and contact information, here.

© 2008-2021 Mixed Bag Media Pvt. Ltd. Developed By PixelVJ

Subscribe to our daily newsletter
Name:*
Your email address:*
*
Please enter all required fields Click to hide
Correct invalid entries Click to hide

© 2008-2021 Mixed Bag Media Pvt. Ltd. Developed By PixelVJ