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Sg: Cellar Door, Web host fined over data protection breach after customer data appeared on Pastebin

Posted on December 31, 2016 by Dissent

K.C. Vijayan reports:

The Cellar Door, a well-known local seller of gourmet products, has been fined $5,000 for failing to protect the personal data of some of its customers and users from being posted on another website without authorisation.

Its website host, Global Interactive Works (GIW), was fined $3,000 by the Personal Data Protection Commission (PDPC). Also, The Cellar Door was ordered to conduct a security audit and patch all identified vulnerabilities on its website.

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