COMMENT | Assure public that their personal data are secure

COMMENT | On Sept 28, 2021, several tech portals reported that a database that apparently belongs to the National Registration Department (NRD) has been put up on sale at a well-known database marketplace forum.

The reports cited the seller’s claim that it contained four million data that were obtained from the Inland Revenue Board’s (IRB) website through the Application Programming Interface (API) that is made for MyIdentity.

According to reports, the data also includes such personal information as names, e-mails, mobile phone numbers, IC numbers and also pictures. The database was put up for sale for 0.2 BTC, which is equivalent to around RM35,000.

IRB has denied that there was any data leak from their side.

Similarly, at the time of writing, Home Minister Hamzah Zainudin had..