Reddit post claims MOE warned of Mobile Guardian vulnerability 2 months before hack - The Online Citizen
Source: The Online Citizen
Published on: 2024-08-07 02:49
SINGAPORE: Following a recent hack of the Ministry of Education (MOE)'s Mobile Guardian app, which affected 13,000 students, a Redditor revealed on social media that he had emailed MOE about potential security vulnerabilities as early as two months ago. In a Reddit post dated August 5, the user shared the content of the email, noting his long-standing awareness of the app's security issues and the potential consequences. "So many emails to Mobile Guardian and MOE later, it is disappointing for me to find out that everything I did was for nothing. It still took MOE an actual cybersecurity breach to learn their lesson," the user wrote. The user expressed a desire to raise awareness about the issue by sharing his correspondence with MOE. "Hopefully, this will allow us to take similar incidents more seriously in future." Gutzy has reached out to MOE and Mr Chan Chun Sing, Minister of Ed...
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