Another week, another data breach, and this time involving another communications services provider in Singapore. With cybersecurity incidents now seemingly commonplace, more organisations must be realising it’s only a matter of time before they get hit, but they’ll be wrong to assume it’s their advance-to-go card and they get to skip doing their due diligence in safeguarding customer data.
MyRepublic on Friday said personal data of 79.388 of its mobile subscribers were compromised, following a security breach on a third-party data storage platform. The affected system had contained identity verification documents needed for mobile services registration, including scanned copies of local customers’ national identity cards and residential addresses of foreign residents.
I asked MyRepublic if the data storage service was cloud-based and whether it was the only client affected by the breach, but it declined to provide specifics citing confidentiality and security reasons.
It did reveal, however, that it was informed of the breach by “an unknown…
