Telekom Malaysia (TM) has alerted Unifi customers that a data breach may have affected some of their customers.
According to local reports, the company said that the breach may have involved names, MyKad/passport numbers, and contact details. No other information was believed to have been compromised. TM suffered a previous breach in December 2022 affecting Unifi mobile customers.
Malaysia experienced an average of 84 million cyber attacks per day in the last quarter of 2022 and there were a total of 4,741 recorded cases of cyber threats last year, according to Cyber Security Malaysia.
Data breaches have captured the headlines in the past week. Razer, a well-known gaming firm, encountered a possible data breach, with an unidentified individual on a hacker’s forum allegedly seeking to sell the stolen data for a sum of US$100,000 in cryptocurrency.
HCA Healthcare, among the largest companies in the United States, was also hit by a data breach where the affected data is currently up for sale. The extensive dataset, comprising around 27 million entries, encompasses highly sensitive information, including personal details of patients and records of their visits.
This occurrence has been touted as one of the most significant breaches within the healthcare domain.
