GEORGE TOWN, May 20 – Referring to the contagious report, another set of leaked Malaysian data was sold through a dark web for RM40,000. 00. The hacker syndicate stated that they had data belonging to 22.5 million Malaysians that had been stolen from the Malaysian Information Department. The same incident happened in September 2021.
MUDA Penang urges the authorities to conduct a detailed investigation without delay. Punishment must be meted out to all parties involved. It is important because, when leaked, the data is easily misused by criminals. With this, unwanted activities such as fraud cases will occur.
At the same time, the authorities need to further strengthen the protection of personal data of the people, especially the data of the “MySejahtera” application which contains personal information and health status of Malaysians. All parties must work together to safeguard the data security of Malaysians, said the Director of the Data & Technology Bureau of the Penang MUDA Party, Meor Mohd. Arafat bin Mohamad Shahini.
