Singapore Land Authority: 70,000 people's personal data exposed in IBM-managed cloud environment security breach

Personal details of about 70,000 people exposed in SLA cloud security incident, investigations ongoing

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70,000 people affected in SLA data breach

The Singapore Land Authority (SLA) has been hit with a data breach through an IBM-managed cloud environment, affecting about 70,000 people, the agency announced July 3. SLA said the stolen data set, created in 1998 and updated periodically over the years, was for the sole purpose of vendor development and testing. It was intended to contain only mock and anonymised testing data based on property ownership and lodgment records. However, SLA has u…

Singapore Land Authority: 70,000 people's personal data exposed in IBM-managed cloud environment security breach

SINGAPORE: The personal data of about 70,000 people has been exposed after attackers gained unauthorised access to a cloud environment managed by IBM for the Singapore Land Authority (SLA). The breach didn’t affect SLA’s live property systems, but investigators found that a testing database dating back to 1998 contained real personal information that should have been anonymised. According to SLA, the exposed records included names, NRIC numbers …