Data Breach
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Half of consumers (50%) would walk away from an online service provider if it suffered any form of data breach, according to a study of 15,000 consumers worldwide, conducted by global security company Kaspersky. The idea of avoidable data misuse is likely to incur even greater wrath from respondents, however, with 63% affirming they would…
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As Singapore’s healthcare sector recovers from its second biggest data leak in less than a year due to a slip up by a third-party vendor, one of the questions that is on many people’s mind is whether organisations should outsource IT jobs. On one hand, third-party vendors are supposedly more specialised in the role that…
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Singapore’s push to become a smart nation stumbled yet again. More than 800,000 personal details of blood donors were left online for more than two months. According to HSA’s press release, the personal information of the blood donors includes the name, NRIC, gender, number of blood donations, dates of pass three blood donations, blood type,…
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First hacked in December 2017, Chinese e-commerce giant, Gearbest’s website has once again been breached. This time, more than 1.5 million data, which includes user names, date of birth, account passwords, payment information, IP addresses, national identification and passport details were all exposed. Commenting on the breach, Tim Mackey, Technology Evangelist at Synopsys, Inc, said:…
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Ever since the internet got smarter in the recent decade, there has not been a peaceful year without news of data leaks. With the rise of cyber threats, many organisations have turned to the ancient way of working, which is to go offline, to prevent themselves from becoming the next victim of cyber crime. But…
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SINGAPORE – ESET, a developer of award-winning cybersecurity software, recently commissioned a survey to understand consumer behaviours online and their attitudes towards cybersecurity in light of the recent cases of data compromises. The ESET 2018 APAC Consumer Behaviour survey revealed that more than 1 in 3 (42%) Singaporeans had experienced a data breach in the past…
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