Is Your Data Safe Online?

The social networking giant Facebook’s very recent data breach shocked the world.

- 

The social networking giant Facebook’s very recent data breach shocked the world. However, it’s not the first time something like this has happened. Hacking incidents and data breach are getting common and millions get affected by it. In this article, we are going to list the biggest global hacking attacks that affected India as well.

1. FACEBOOK DATA BREACH (2018) 

Facebook is going through one of the major scandals in its existence. It was held responsible for improperly sharing user’s personal data with Cambridge Analytica which is a UK-based company. The data was reportedly used after a while for influencing US election results. According to Facebook, some 87 million users were affected by this data breach including the approx. figure of 5,62,120 users in India.

2. WANNA CRY AND PETYA RANSOMWARE ATTACKS (2017)