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SINGAPORE – The personal data of 2,400 Ministry of Defence (Mindef) and Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) personnel may have been leaked through e-mail phishing by malicious malware.
The data leak occurred at a privately owned vendor of SAF and Mindef, ST Logistics, which is contracted to provide third-party logistics services such as eMart retail and equipping services for the SAF. The data included the full names and NRIC numbers, and a combination of contact numbers, e-mail addresses or residential addresses, Mindef said in a statement on Saturday (Dec 21).
The breach was a result of e-mail phishing activities sent to its employees’ e-mail accounts, ST Logistics said on Saturday. No details were given on when the phishing had occurred or for how long.
In another unrelated incident affecting another SAF vendor, a healthcare training provider’s server containing the data of 120,000 individuals including 98,000 SAF servicemen, was found to have been infected by ransomware on Dec 4.
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