A hacker has allegedly stolen the personal information of one billion people from the Shanghai police, which would represent one of the greatest data breaches in history, according to cyber experts.

Hacker claims to have stolen records of 1 billion Chinese citizens

Privacy has become a big concern for netizens. Nowadays, one can also find several kinds of personal information in Google search results. To help people protect their privacy, Alphabet Inc's Google has finally started to take requests for removal of results containing information like phone numbers, home addresses and email accounts, a Reuters report said.

Right to be forgotten: Google begins to take requests for removal of search results with personal info

A few days after it was revealed that data of over 530 million Facebook accounts have been sold online, the social media giant has issued a clarification about the apparent "hack".

Personal data of 533 million users 'scraped', not hacked: Facebook

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