{"id":255227,"date":"2026-05-25T09:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T13:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/25\/a-qr-ious-case-of-privacy-data-leak\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T16:40:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T20:40:23","slug":"a-qr-ious-case-of-privacy-data-leak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/25\/a-qr-ious-case-of-privacy-data-leak\/","title":{"rendered":"A QR-Ious Case of Privacy Data Leak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.deccanchronicle.com\/tabloid\/hyderabad-chronicle\/a-qr-ious-case-of-privacy-data-leak-1959028\">A QR-Ious Case of Privacy Data Leak<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.deccanchronicle.com\/tabloid\/hyderabad-chronicle\/a-qr-ious-case-of-privacy-data-leak-1959028\">https:\/\/www.deccanchronicle.com\/tabloid\/hyderabad-chronicle\/a-qr-ious-case-of-privacy-data-leak-1959028<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-25 09:20:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.deccanchronicle.com\">www.deccanchronicle.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was a simple dinner at a restaurant on FC Road, Pune, that turned into a nightmare for a Pune woman recently. Sharing her experience on social media, Rishika Dutta alleged that a restaurant staff member accessed her phone number through a QR-based ordering system and later sent her unsolicited late-night messages. Her post garnered public attention, and social media went into a tizzy. This raises a pertinent question as to how much personal data we are casually sharing each time we scan a QR code to order food, pay bills or check into a venue?<\/p>\n<p>QR Code Concerns<\/p>\n<p>Himanshu Yadav, a Cyber Security Expert, Researcher &#038; Founder of HackindTech, says, \u201cQR-code ordering systems are convenient, but they can create privacy risks if customer data is not properly protected internally.\u201d In many restaurants, customer phone numbers and billing details are often visible on staff dashboards or POS systems. If access controls are weak, such information can easily be misused by employees for personal communication, unsolicited contact, or even scams. Insider misuse is becoming an increasingly significant cybersecurity concern globally and is no longer limited to threats from external hackers alone.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, businesses must recognise that customer data protection is not just about defending systems from outside attacks, but also about regulating who within the organisation can access sensitive information. Himanshu says, \u201cRestaurants and service establishments should ensure that only authorised employees are given access to customer details, while also maintaining proper monitoring and audit logs to track how such data is being used.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wider Ramifications<\/p>\n<p>Cybersecurity threats today have spread their wings far beyond conventional hacking, cutting across sectors and domains ranging from healthcare and aviation to hospitality, banking and everyday consumer services.<\/p>\n<p>Nirali Bhatia, a Cyber Psychologist &#038; Psychotherapist from Mumbai says that cyber-related privacy violations&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.deccanchronicle.com\/tabloid\/hyderabad-chronicle\/a-qr-ious-case-of-privacy-data-leak-1959028\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A QR-Ious Case of Privacy Data Leak https:\/\/www.deccanchronicle.com\/tabloid\/hyderabad-chronicle\/a-qr-ious-case-of-privacy-data-leak-1959028 Publish Date: 2026-05-25 09:20:00 Source Domain: www.deccanchronicle.com&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":255228,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.deccanchronicle.com\/h-upload\/2026\/05\/25\/2044264-26img4267.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255227"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255229,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255227\/revisions\/255229"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}