Indonesia’s private data protection bill cleared another hurdle and could be voted into law this week. As Bloomberg reports: Data operators could face up to five years in jail and a maximum fine of 5 billion rupiah ($337,000) for leaking or misusing private information, according to Indonesia’s new data privacy bill set to be passed…
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Laptop at centre of probe into massive 2017 phone data leak
FMT reporters: Police are investigating new evidence linked to a data leak about five years ago that reportedly involved 46 million Malaysian mobile numbers. The new evidence is believed to revolve around the use of a highly-secure laptop computer from the premises of the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission to access a server containing the…
Growing risk to Indonesian citizens’ privacy as breaches and leaks appear on marketplaces
On July 22, DataBreaches reported on some recent breaches affecting Thai citizens and residents. In researching that post, DataBreaches was struck by the number of listings or offerings of data from ASEAN countries. In this post, DataBreaches provides a partial listing of some recent leaks or breaches affecting Indonesian citizens and residents. In general, the…
Acer under fire: Now hackers claim to have hit Acer Taiwan, too
DESORDEN threat actors are still going after Acer, it seems. In addition to their recent revelation that they exfiltrated 60 GB of data from Acer India — a breach that Acer confirmed — they have alerted DataBreaches.net that they have also successfully attacked Acer in Taiwan. In a statement to DataBreaches.net, the threat actors write:…
My: No security breach, data leakage on MAF’s end or SSM’s end
The Star reports: The issue over the alleged data leak involving personal information of the public does not involve any security breach on the part of the Malaysian Armed Forces, says Chief of Defence Force Tan Sri Affendi Buang. He said MAF always emphasised the confidentiality of all data, whether it was in a closed…
Desorden Group claims to have stolen 200 GB of data from ABX Express
DataBreaches.net has been contacted by a threat actor or group calling themselves “Desorden Group” (“Desorden”). The group claims to have hacked ABX Express Enterprise servers in Malaysia on September 23. We have stolen more than 200 gigabytes of files and databases, tens of millions of customers personal data from their servers, wiped their drives and…