Data breaches News
India reported 2,08,456 incidents in 2018; 3,94,499 incidents in 2019.
The country saw 11,58,208 cases in 2020.
India witnessed 2,12,485 incidents in the first two months of 2022.
Terming the existing data protection framework as inadequate, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) in a set of recommendations to DoT said that companies should not use meta-data to identify users and should disclose any data breaches.
Most of the companies fall victim to cyber attackers either because of unpatched software with known vulnerabilities or because of the human factor like people falling victim to phishing emails, Finland-based cyber security firm F-Secure said on Monday.
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