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Data breach reportedly targets Indiaโ€™s Kudankulam nuclear power plant

Purported blueprints of parts of India's largest plant exposed by World Leaks ransomeware group, Reuters reports.

Minister downplays risks from โ€˜data breachโ€™ at Kudankulam nuclear plant

Speaking to The Hindu, Union MoS Jitendra Singh says the breach has nothing to do with nuclear security at the Kudankulam nuclear power plant; experts also do not seem worried by the incident

UK court jails young hackers for massive London transport cyberattack

A UK court on Thursday jailed two young men for a 2024 cyberattack on Londonโ€™s public transport operator that exposed the details of millions of customers, in one of Britainโ€™s biggest data breaches. Thalha Jubair, 20, from East London, and 18-year-old Owen Flowers from Englandโ€™s West Midlands were each handed five-and-a-half-year sentences at Londonโ€™s Woolwich Crown Court. The pair pleaded guilty last month to hacking Transport for Londonโ€™s (TfL) network between August 31 and September 3, 2024,...

Kudankulam nuclear plant data breach triggers โ€˜absolute commotionโ€™ among projectโ€™s top brass: sources

Multiple NPCIL sources have confirmed the leak of data. However, a senior official said: โ€œThe files leaked are not related to KKNPP plant safety or nuclear safety. They are ordinary files which are common to any thermal power plantโ€

Files relating to Kudankulam nuclear power plant exposed in data breach: report

Anil Ambaniโ€™s Reliance Group, one of the plantโ€™s contractors, told Reuters in a statement that there had been a โ€œpartial breachโ€ of its data on a server hosted by third-party Indian data centre service provider Yotta, and that the govt. has been informed about the incident

Fine firms for data breaches, Hong Kong cybersecurity experts urge

Cybersecurity experts have called on authorities to impose fines on firms that suffer data breaches, after the personal information of more than 1 million people linked to a leading Hong Kong appliance distributor was maliciously encrypted. They made the comments on Friday, a day after the cityโ€™s privacy watchdog announced it had launched an investigation into the breach, which was initially reported by Shun Hing Group on March 23. The Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data said...

Cyberattack on Hong Kongโ€™s Shun Hing Group affects data of 1 million people

A cyberattack on leading Hong Kong appliance distributor Shun Hing Group has compromised the personal information of more than 1 million people, according to the cityโ€™s privacy watchdog. The Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data said on Thursday that it had launched an investigation into the incident after receiving a data breach report from Shun Hing Group on March 23. The latest information provided by the company suggested that the personal data of as many as 1.05 million...

How is Apple affected by a data breach at Tata Electronics?

Tata is reportedly beefing up its security measures and organising a forensic audit after a cybersecurity incident involving data leaks related to clients Apple and Tesla