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Why Bangladesh’s new data protection law may fail to protect your data
·Source: DataBreaches.net
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Executive Summary
Meem Arafat Manab reports: On August 19, 2025, hackers broke into Shwapno’s customer database. They took 410 gigabytes of data: the names, phone numbers, and purchase histories of forty lakh registered customers. They demanded $1.5 million. Shwapno refused, secured its systems, and said nothing to its customers for seven months. When the hackers published the... Source
Analysis
Meem Arafat Manab reports: On August 19, 2025, hackers broke into Shwapno’s customer database. They took 410 gigabytes of data: the names, phone numbers, and purchase histories of forty lakh registered customers. They demanded $1.5 million. Shwapno refused, secured its systems, and said nothing to its customers for seven months. When the hackers published the... Source