Rush Hour: Delhi court orders CJP leaders’ release, data of nearly 3,900 SBI customers leaked & more

A Delhi court has ordered the release of Cockroach Janta Party leaders Ashutosh Ranka and Saurav Das. The two, along with another campaign leader, Ajinkya Shinde, had been detained on October 13 after they trespassed into Jantar Mantar and waved the national flag.

They had “sneaked into” Jantar Mantar to protest the decision to denotify the area as a designated protest site.

On October 14, Ranka and Das were sent to judicial custody for five days. Shinde was released on a personal bond. After their custody ended on Monday, a Delhi court extended Ranka and Das’ judicial custody by two days. Read on.

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The State Bank of India said that a cyberattack had led to about 3.75 lakh customer records being leaked on the dark web, of which 3,897 contained personally identifiable information. The records included customers’ names, mobile numbers, dates of birth, gender, email addresses and residential addresses.

The bank said the leak was not expected to have any impact on its operations or financial performance.

However, digital rights organisation Internet Freedom Foundation flagged that the bank had not notified the customers whose data had been leaked and had only informed the stock exchanges about . Read on.

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