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US-based hardware giant Dell announced today a security breach that took place earlier this month, on November 9. Dell says it detected an unauthorized intruder (or intruders) "attempting to extract Dell.com customer information" from its systems, such as customer names, email addresses, and hashed passwords. The company didn't go into details about the complexity of the password hashing algorithm, but some of these --such as MD5-- can be broken within seconds to reveal the plaintext password. "Though it is possible some of this information was removed from Dell's network, our investigations found no conclusive evidence that any was extracted," Dell said today in a press release. In a statement sent to ZDNet, Dell said it's still investigating the incident, but said the breach wasn't extensive, with the company's engineers detecting the intrusion on the same day it happened. A Dell spokesperson declined to give out a number of affected acc

Tesla cars may come to India in a year’s time. Co-founder and CEO Elon Musk tweeted that the electric car maker plans to have “partial presence in India, Africa, and South America by the end of next year, with broader expansion in 2020.” Earlier, Musk tweeted that the country’s restrictive policy environment was proving to be a hurdle for local production. The government’s flip-flop on an electric vehicle policy hasn’t helped, with announcements ranging from 100% EV sales by 2030 to replacing 30% of conventional cars with battery-powered ones to statements such as an “EV policy was not required.” A Delhi startup has devised a solution to the city’s unbreathable air. Kurin Systems has won a patent for the “world’s largest as well as the strongest air purifier,” which, its co-founder Pavneet Singh Puri claims, can provide clean air to 75,000 people living in a 3 km radius. The 40-feet tall solar-powered device can purify 32 million cubic meters of air per day, using a mechanism