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MY: Personal Data Protection Commission to probe data leak

Posted on January 24, 2018 by Dissent

Is this going to be the Malaysian version of “shoot the messenger?” Rajvinder Singh, Ashwin Kumar and Haikal Jalil report:

Police are suspicious that last year’s massive data breach of mobile phone users and the recent data breach of over 440,000 organ donors and their next-of-kin from government hospitals and the National Transplant Resource Centre, were first reported on the Lowyat.net website.

“We find it suspicious and we will be in contact with the website administrators regarding this case,” Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Tan Sri Mohamad Fuzi Harun said after officiating a Criminal Investigation Department investigation guidelines book handover at Sogo shopping centre in Kuala Lumpur today.

Read more on the Sun Daily.

So…  is the site just getting tips from those with knowledge of the leaks or are they somehow more involved?

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