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Possibility of data breach with mySalam health insurance scheme, Perkasa claims

Posted on February 6, 2019 by Dissent

Ida Nadirah Ibrahim reports:

The government-run health insurance scheme for the bottom 40 per cent of workers raises the concern of data breach by Singaporean insurance company Great Eastern Takaful Berhad, Perkasa claimed today.

Its information chief Nasrul Ali Hasan Abdul Latif said this is because the Finance Ministry has allowed Great Eastern Takaful to have access to 3.69 million data from the B40 groups, which consist of personal details, home and work address, dependents, monthly income, and frequency of utilising the scheme as well as health details.

Read more on MalayMail.

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