Channel NewsAsia reports:
The database system for Nanyang Polytechnic‘s (NYP) former students was compromised, and bank details were stolen, according to the school.
About 240 former students, mostly from its 1994 to 1999 batches, were affected by the breach, and NYP issued a letter to inform them of the incident on Feb 5. The hacker had “accessed the system through a security loophole in one of the programmes” in the database, a school spokesperson said, citing investigation findings following the incident.
The spokesperson added the school learnt of a possible “unauthorised access” into its system late on Jan 14, and a thorough investigation was conducted the next day before a police report was made.
The information stolen was “in the form of student admission numbers and names and numbers of bank accounts linked to a limited number of former students for GIRO payment of their school fees”, the spokesperson said.
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