User data leaked from Telangana State Police's Hawk Eye app
The Hawk Eye app of India's Telangana State Police was hacked, leaking the personal information of more than 200,000 users. When the data appeared on a hacker forum, police registered a case and opened an investigation. The police subsequently also shut down the TS-COP app.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Telangana State Police
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Personal information of more than 200,000 Hawk Eye app users
- Cause / method
- Hacking of the Hawk Eye app
- Location
- India
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Timeline
- It emerged that the hacking of the Hawk Eye app had leaked the personal information of more than 200,000 users.
- Police registered a case and opened an investigation as Hawk Eye data appeared on a hacker forum.
- The Telangana State Police shut down the TS-COP app following the breach.
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