Recent decisions by the Data Protection Commissioner of Singapore include the following: Directions were issued to Crawfort Pte to conduct a security audit of its technical and administrative arrangements for its AWS S3 environment and rectify any security gaps identified in the audit report. This is pursuant to a data breach incident where Crawfort’s customer…
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Sg: PDPC issues monetary penalty in the matter of the Vhive cyberattack
One of the many hacks this site reported on in 2021 was the attack on Vhive in Singapore by threat actors calling themselves ALTDOS. The attack resulted in what the threat actors claimed was hundreds of thousands of the furniture retailers’ customers having their personal information leaked when the firm refused to pay the attackers’…
Another Malaysia carrier allegedly hacked and data exfiltrated — Skynet
Desorden Group, who recently claimed to have successfully breached ABX Express, has contacted DataBreaches.net to report yet another logistics firm breach. This time, the claimed victim is Skynet.com.my. Skynet is a carrier company in Malaysia that provides domestic and international carrier services. Desorden Group provided DataBreaches.net with proof of claim — a video taken showing…
Advisories are published, but are enough entities reading them and taking precautions?
Three advisories have been released this week about threat actor groups. One involves ALTDOS, one involves HIVE, and one involves the “OnePercent Group,” whose name may not sound familiar to many. ALTDOS (Joint Advisory) It appears that ALTDOS is getting some serious attention from Singapore’s CSA and other agencies in Singapore. These threat actors who…
Sg: OrangeTee real estate group suffers data security breach
CNA reports: OT Group, the holding company of OrangeTee & Tie and OrangeTee Advisory, has suffered a data security breach, the Singapore real estate group said on Friday (Aug 6). The company said it received an email from a third party claiming to have accessed its IT network. The incident was reported to the relevant…
SG: Vhive attackers escalate, take control of furniture retailer’s email server
On March 29, DataBreaches.net reported a confirmed hack of Singapore retail furniture chain Vhive. Previous coverage of the attack, as reported by ALTDOS threat actors and as reported by the firm on their site can be found here. At the time of that publication, ransom negotiations between the firm and the attackers appeared to have…