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Some of the organisations affected by the breach are BBC, British Airways, EY, Australian health insurer Medibank and Shell.

Goldheart is a jewellery brand under Aspial Lifestyle (formerly Maxi-Cash).

About 2,000 customers of GDS Holdings and ST Telemedia Global Data Centres were affected.

The data was siphoned out because of a flaw in Twitter’s software, experts say, which has since been fixed.

Phishing attacks and malicious emails are the most effective methods used in data breaches, according to Acronis.

Group CEO Yuen says that Singtel’s own core operations and functions remain unaffected and sound.

SINGAPORE (May 6): Despite improvements to combating cybercrime and threats, IT security professionals are still struggling to fully protect their organisation against breaches with 61% claiming to have experienced a data breach at their current workplace

The Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal that broke a year ago underscored the value and vulnerability of personal data in the internet age. Twelve months and many promises later, the public remains unconvinced about privacy protections amid a wave of dat

SINGAPORE (Apr 15): Eric Chua, owner of IT solutions company Rocket Buzzer, once spent over a week trying to open a corporate bank account. Most of the time was spent going back and forth to the bank branch, lugging documents and waiting for people to ver

(Jan 28): Records of as many as 14,200 people with HIV and their 2,400 contacts have been “illegally disclosed online”, Singapore’s health ministry said in a statement, marking the second cyberattack the city-state has suffered in a year.