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Government mishandling of personal data: Where does it end?

Are these incidents of data breach and data leaks not contradictory to the very image of the smart, digital, developed Bangladesh that they are desperately trying to portray or advertise?

Personal data up for sale online!

Some government employees are selling citizens’ NID card and phone call details through hundreds of Facebook, Telegram, and WhatsApp groups, the National Telecommunication Monitoring Centre has found.

AT&T resets account passcodes after millions of leaks online

AT&T, the telecommunications giant, has taken urgent action to reset millions of customer account passcodes following a significant data breach where a cache of data consisting of AT&T customer records surfaced online earlier this month, according to TechCrunch, an American global online newspaper.

Massive data leak exposes over 26 bln records

Cybersecurity researcher Bob Dyachenko and the Cybernews team have unveiled a massive data leak, referred to as the ‘Mother of all Breaches’ (MOAB), containing 12 terabytes of information encompassing 26 billion records. This supermassive breach contains data from numerous previous breaches, including major platforms such as LinkedIn, Twitter, Adobe, Canva, Badoo, Weibo, Tencent, MySpace, Telegram, Dropbox, Daily Motion etc. making it potentially the largest-ever discovered data leak.

Opinion / Govt's priority is to access, not protect, our personal data

The government has heavily invested in purchasing surveillance equipment and enhancing the capacities of various agencies to use them over the years, but it hasn't shown an iota of the same interest in what should have been its priority—protection of citizens’ data

Smart Bangladesh, unsmart cybersecurity measures

In the recent case, the entire profile of an individual could be obtained from the Telegram channel by just providing two inputs: the NID number and the date of birth.

Hackers feast on government sites

With the general election around the corner, data leaks and cyberattacks have intensified alarmingly, with the latest being a suspected leak of five crore citizens’ data from the Office of the Registrar General, Birth & Death Registration (BDRIS).

May 25, 2024
May 25, 2024

Government mishandling of personal data: Where does it end?

Are these incidents of data breach and data leaks not contradictory to the very image of the smart, digital, developed Bangladesh that they are desperately trying to portray or advertise?

May 21, 2024
May 21, 2024

Personal data up for sale online!

Some government employees are selling citizens’ NID card and phone call details through hundreds of Facebook, Telegram, and WhatsApp groups, the National Telecommunication Monitoring Centre has found.

March 31, 2024
March 31, 2024

AT&T resets account passcodes after millions of leaks online

AT&T, the telecommunications giant, has taken urgent action to reset millions of customer account passcodes following a significant data breach where a cache of data consisting of AT&T customer records surfaced online earlier this month, according to TechCrunch, an American global online newspaper.

January 24, 2024
January 24, 2024

Massive data leak exposes over 26 bln records

Cybersecurity researcher Bob Dyachenko and the Cybernews team have unveiled a massive data leak, referred to as the ‘Mother of all Breaches’ (MOAB), containing 12 terabytes of information encompassing 26 billion records. This supermassive breach contains data from numerous previous breaches, including major platforms such as LinkedIn, Twitter, Adobe, Canva, Badoo, Weibo, Tencent, MySpace, Telegram, Dropbox, Daily Motion etc. making it potentially the largest-ever discovered data leak.

November 24, 2023
November 24, 2023

Govt's priority is to access, not protect, our personal data

The government has heavily invested in purchasing surveillance equipment and enhancing the capacities of various agencies to use them over the years, but it hasn't shown an iota of the same interest in what should have been its priority—protection of citizens’ data

October 10, 2023
October 10, 2023

Smart Bangladesh, unsmart cybersecurity measures

In the recent case, the entire profile of an individual could be obtained from the Telegram channel by just providing two inputs: the NID number and the date of birth.

July 9, 2023
July 9, 2023

Hackers feast on government sites

With the general election around the corner, data leaks and cyberattacks have intensified alarmingly, with the latest being a suspected leak of five crore citizens’ data from the Office of the Registrar General, Birth & Death Registration (BDRIS).