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Bangladesh data breach exposes millions' personal information TechCrunch reports that millions of Bangladeshi citizens had their personal data, including full names, email addresses, phone numbers, and national ID numbers, exposed by a government website.

The committee will submit report in seven days

Calls have intensified in the last couple of days on the need to put in place a body that will oversee the proper management of personal data.

A security researcher discovered a Bangladesh government web portal that exposed the personal information of about 50 million citizens, including their birth

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).

A government office told Anadolu on Saturday it was examining a breach of more than 50 million Bangladeshis’ personal information that was exposed on a government website, and termed it “a global cyber insecurity crisis.” The development surfaced after Viktor Markopoulos from Bitcrack Cyber Security discovered the leak June 27, TechCrunch, a US high-tech online portal, reported Friday. The cybersecurity

The incident of leaking sensitive personal information of millions of Bangladeshi citizens on the internet from the website of a government organisation was due to technical weaknesses of the site, Zunaid Ahmed Palak said today.

According to a report, a researcher of a cybersecurity firm accidentally stumbled on to the trove of data on Jun 27 during a regular Google search

An alleged security exploit in a Bangladeshi government website has resulted in the exposure of sensitive personal information belonging to millions of Bangladeshi citizens on the internet. The leaked data includes names, birth dates, and National Identification (NID) numbers of over 50 million users which is alledgedly easily accessible through a simple Google search.

New Age, a Dhaka-based leading English language daily newspaper, is a major source of news of Bangladesh and international affairs