Fullerton Health and vendor fined $68k after data of 156,900 customers leaked for sale on dark web
Source: The Straits Times
Published on: 2023-06-22 15:32
SINGAPORE - Fullerton Health Group, which runs at least 30 clinics here, has been fined $58,000 over a data leak in 2021 which exposed the personal details of its patients and the employees of its corporate clients. The customer data it shared with a vendor was left exposed without password protection for months. This led to the personal data of 133,866 patients and 23,034 employees of its corporate clients to be leaked, including their NRIC numbers, contact details, bank account numbers and codes and health information, said the Personal Data Protection Commission in its case findings on Thursday. Agape Connecting People, the vendor Fullerton Health hired to provide call centre and appointment booking services, was also fined $10,000 for failing to secure the customer data entrusted to it by the healthcare group. The data was found peddled on the dark web in late 2021, which prompted...
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