Security Awareness Training by Abhay Verma

Have you ever ordered from India Domino’s using website or mobile app? Then your personal data might be compromised. From the last few months, India’s servers are becoming a juicy target for the hackers and which is constantly being rising. After the data leak of MobiKwik, Upstox, BigBasket and number of other companies, it is now  Domino’s India that recently faced a massive data breach. According to Alon Gal , CTO of Hudson Rock, a hacker on the dark web claimed to hacked Domino’s India and stole 13 TB of customers’ data along with 250 of its employees. Threat actor claiming to have hacked Domino's India ( @dominos ) and stealing 13TB worth of data. Information includes 180,000,000 order details containing names, phone numbers, emails, addresses, payment details, and a whopping 1,000,000 credit cards. pic.twitter.com/1yefKim24A — Alon Gal (Under the Breach) (@UnderTheBreach) April 18, 2021   Also, as per the hacker’s post on dark web, s(he) has collected da...

After the massive Facebook Data Leak, here is another data leak, this time we have LinkedIn. A report by CyberNews, an archive containing data of about 500 million LinkedIn users has been scraped and put on sale on popular hacker forum.  Source: CyberNews Another 2 million records are leaked as a sample proof that make certain the possession of real data. The user’s data contained: LinkedIn IDs Full names Email addresses Phone numbers Gender Links to LinkedIn profiles Links to other social media profiles Workplace information Job Titles, and might be something more… The sample data can be viewed for about $2 worth of forum credits, and the threat actor appears to be selling the much-larger 500 million users database for the price in 4-digit sum ($$$$), in bitcoin. Leaked Sample (Source: CyberNews) Possible Outcomes? Users whose data is leaked might face some phishing attacks which are specifically targeted and could trick them into the fraud. The email-ids & phone n...

Identity theft is the act of unlawfully obtaining someone’s personal information without the permission. The Personally Identifiable Information (PII) includes name, phone number, address, bank account details, Aadhaar and other document numbers, card details and every other information that helps to identify a person is considered as PII. Identity theft is simply stealing these information and using them for illegal activities. Also Read: Social Media Exposing our Personal Data. As per the report on The Economic Times , 4 in 10 Indians have experienced identity theft, and after knowing this we must not overlook the fact that how much dangerous could it be? Identity theft can lead to a number of effects as the stolen information by the criminal can help him/her to personify him/herself as you and can: Gain access to your bank account Apply for loans on your cards or open insurance account File a tax refund in your name and get your refund Obtain a driver’s license, pa...