Guwahati (Assam) [India], Feb 14 (ANI): Guwahati Police on Friday registered a case against former Assam NRC coordinator Prateek Hajela for allegedly not sharing passwords of a couple of email ids before leaving the office.
California [USA], April 3 (ANI): Facebook asked its new users for email passwords in order to verify their accounts. The company has announced that it is ending the malpractice in light of users' privacy.
California [USA], Mar 22 (ANI): Facebook acknowledged that a bug caused hundreds of millions of user passwords, some dating back to 2012, to be stored as readable text internally.
California [United States], January 17 (ANI): Welcome the first big data breach of 2019. Data stored on cloud storage service MEGA has been reportedly compromised, resulting in more than 87 GB of passwords and email addresses getting leaked.
California [United States], December 14 (ANI): Some people never learn. Software company SplashData has released its annual list of the top 100 worst passwords used in this year, and unsurprisingly, the list is not surprising.
California [United States], September 26 (ANI): Breaking away from the worry of having Google websites linked even after logging out on shared devices, the company has announced nifty new features for Chrome 70.
Arizona [United States], August 9 (ANI): Researchers have invented a new method of authentication which will identify a person's hand gestures or fingers making a motion in the air to authenticate their identity.
San Francisco [United States] May 4 (ANI): A major bug in Twitter's hashing process has exposed the password of over 330 million of its users. The company has now asked all of its users to change their passwords immediately.
San Francisco [USA], May 4 (ANI): Twitter has recommended all users to change their passwords after a bug was found that stored passwords in an internal log.