The alleged leaked of 4 million citizens from the database of Jabatan Pendaftaran Negara has left Malaysians not surprised.
The database leak, exposed by an intrusion analyst, was trending on Twitter and garnered the interest of the people.
Currently, the 31.8 GB file size is listed on a ‘database sharing and marketplace forum’ for 0.2 Bitcoins (RM35,500).
The hack was claimed to happen through the government’s data-sharing platform, myIDENTITY.
Farris Deng, a cabin crew, said incidents like this are no longer a surprise.
“When the government is already corrupt to its core, it influences the priority set on private data,” she wrote.
Lesley Hoh supported her comment by telling the issue will not die off if the government hires based on quantity and not quality.
Tick Cheu Lun asked if similar incident results in him getting many spam calls.
He claimed, “Sometimes I get contact from unverified sources and always wonder how they can get our contact details.”
Tick gets annoyed as the messages and calls he gets are from online gambling services.
CyberSecurity Malaysia, a component of the Communications and Multimedia Malaysia Ministry, will not be issuing any statement for now as it’s within the Department of Personal Data Protection (JPDP) jurisdiction.
-THE MALAYSIA VOICE
