1,300 names, addresses of motorists published online; police investigating
Source: AsiaOne
Published on: 2025-07-25 00:57
SINGAPORE - The police are investigating after the names and addresses of around 1,300 traffic rule offenders were published online, after police printing vendor Toppan Next Tech's (TNT) systems were compromised in a ransomware attack. The personal information of the traffic violators were found to have been published online on July 18, said the police and Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA) on July 24, although the leak is believed to have been from an attack months earlier. TNT had received data from the Traffic Police, including the names, addresses, NRIC numbers and traffic violation details of motorists for the purpose of printing and mailing information to the offenders. Only names and addresses, believed to be from Traffic Police records, were found published online, said the police, with no indication the other data has been circulated. The data was believed to h...
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